Secretion of the Shrubbery · Ahumado Granujo

79 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19 and 26-31 -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SECRETION OF THE SHRUBBERY · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 41 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHUSDQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Secretion of the Shrubbery?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Secretion of the Shrubbery 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Secretion of the Shrubbery?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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