bumpin · raleigh

100 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 9-10 and 26-27, and 2 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BUMPIN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 32 and 45 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 40-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 51 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-21.

CHORUS
PART A
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKAACAIU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bumpin?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 bumpin hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 bumpin?

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 32 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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