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Bubble Pop Electric · Gwen Stefani

Bubble Pop Electric · Gwen Stefani
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesFS9ES1S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bubble Pop Electric on drums

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

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-102, snare through bars 103-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-130, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Bubble Pop Electric -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-108 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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