Below is a breakdown of Shut up by Black Eyed Peas, it shows the section name and number of bars.
Section No. of Bars
Violin intro 8
Intro 8 (Drums in on 5th bar)
Chorus 8
1st Verse 16
Chorus 8
2nd Verse 16
Chorus 8
3rd Verse 16 (don’t play 1st bar)
Break 1
Middle 8 8
Outro 16 (as far as drums are concerned!)
This weeks “Track of the week” is Shut Up by Black Eyed Peas, it was one of my favourites to play to when I first started out, it’s aggressive but funky and fun at the same time. It carries a beautiful “four to the floor” groove throughout (where you play the bass on the “1, 2, 3” and “4” of your bar.) Fills are entirely up to you. Again you have the choice to keep them simple of go for it with this one. Trying to get the breaks in the right places is good counting practice and messing around on the hi hat is quite good practice on this track.
