Word Up · Gun

123 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-22, and 16 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
WORD UP · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 31, 39, 55, 67, 75 and 7 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 4 sections: 67 keep time, 13 are fills, 36 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-66.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Word Up?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Word Up hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Word Up?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 31, 39, 55, 67, 75 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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