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Bubbly · Good Kid

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove C
72 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDOBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bubbly on drums

105 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-69, snare through bars 70-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8 and 10-13, and 6 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
Bubbly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 97 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bubbly?

182 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Bubbly 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bubbly?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED