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Word Up! · Korn

EXERCISE 24 OF 31
Part K into Chorus 2 with the record (bars 25-32)
70 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Word Up! on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and snare through bars 61-76.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-x-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Word Up! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- K, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-56 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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