Stir It Up · Bob Marley

204 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-30, 32-47 and 49-66, and 6 more places -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
STIR IT UP · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 4 sections: 197 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-198.

OUTRO
4 groovesDES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stir It Up?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Stir It Up hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stir It Up?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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