Bubble Pop Electric · Gwen Stefani

167 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:38 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 37 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BUBBLE POP ELECTRIC · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 11, 110, 111 and 112.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 9 sections: 106 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-100.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesFS9ES1S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bubble Pop Electric?

190 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bubble Pop Electric hard to play on drums?

51 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bubble Pop Electric?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 11, 110, 111 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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