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Whats up · No 4 Blond

Whats up · No 4 Blond
EXERCISE 2 OF 28
Groove I -- Part I
22 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whats up on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 3-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-53 and ride through bars 54-55, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x--xx--xx--xx--x|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
Whats up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-49 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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