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Up The Junction · Squeeze

Up The Junction · Squeeze
EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
93 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 93 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Up The Junction on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-90 and ride through bars 91-93.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Up The Junction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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