Word Up! · Korn

76 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-47, and 6 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WORD UP! · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 6 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-76.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Word Up!?

116 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?

58 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Word Up!?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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