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What's Up? · 4 Non Blondes

What's Up? · 4 Non Blondes
EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Groove C -- Outro
42 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What's Up? on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-76.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-xxx-x-x-xxx-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
What's Up? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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