Shugabush Island · My Singing Monsters

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 2:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-28, 37-42 and 47-50 -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 89 BPM
SHUGABUSH ISLAND · BARS 11-12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 36 and 46.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-27.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesECS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shugabush Island?

89 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 Shugabush Island hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shugabush Island?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 36 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 50 BARS ANALYSED
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