Uptight · Green Day

118 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-60, 62-68 and 86-92, and 5 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
UPTIGHT · BARS 54-55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 46, 53, 61, 69, 85 and 6 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 7 sections: 98 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-84.

PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGAJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Uptight?

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

Is Uptight hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Uptight?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 46, 53, 61, 69, 85 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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