What's Up? · 4 Non Blondes

76 bars, 4:41, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-15 and 17-19, and 9 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
WHAT'S UP? · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 48, 52 and 9 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 5 sections: 53 keep time, 15 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-15.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What's Up??

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is What's Up? hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 What's Up??

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 48, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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