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Uptight · Green Day

EXERCISE 4 OF 27
Groove A -- Part A
42 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A, CHORUS
PART B
PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGAJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uptight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    54               55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---------x-|----------------|
HH |--------o-o-o---|--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Uptight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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