Flight Of The Bumblebee · At Vance

57 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38, and 1 more place -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE · BAR 31
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 20, 21, 33 and 11 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 39-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 4 sections: 30 keep time, 17 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-38.

PART C
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMBCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight Of The Bumblebee?

170 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 Flight Of The Bumblebee hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Flight Of The Bumblebee?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 20, 21, 33 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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