Whats up · No 4 Blond

66 bars, 4:04, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-13 and 16-21, and 2 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
WHATS UP · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 14, 42, 46, 50, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 47 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whats 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 Whats up hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whats up?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 14, 42, 46, 50, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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