ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bumpin on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 136 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 100
LENGTH: 2:50
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-39 and toms through bars 40-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
HH |------------------------------x-----o-----x-----|------x-x-x-o-----x-----------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------f---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--------x-----------x-----|------------------x-----------------------------|

bumpin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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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