Up The Junction · Squeeze

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 18-25 and 28-35, and 9 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
UP THE JUNCTION · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 16, 26, 36, 45 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 5 sections: 74 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-89.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesEIAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Up The Junction?

120 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 Up The Junction hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Up The Junction?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 16, 26, 36, 45 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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