F.U.B.B. · Wishbone Ash

311 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
8:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23-35, and 25 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
F.U.B.B. · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 135, 143, 147, 151, 166, 169 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 147 · LANDS ON BAR 148
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 151 · LANDS ON BAR 152

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

311 bars across 16 sections: 206 keep time, 23 are fills, 57 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-82.

CHORUS
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART F
11 groovesEFDAGO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is F.U.B.B.?

140 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 F.U.B.B. hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 8:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in F.U.B.B.?

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 135, 143, 147, 151, 166, 169 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED
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