ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play uhhhhh... on drums

72 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 72
LENGTH: 1:36
DIFFICULTY: 84/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31 and 33-43 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x--------------x--x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----|------x-----------x--x--------------x-----------|

uhhhhh... -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is uhhhhh...?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is uhhhhh... hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in uhhhhh...?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED