Smoking Umbrellas · Failure

71 bars, 3:47, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SMOKING UMBRELLAS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 31, 56, 60, 63 and 68.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 4 sections: 57 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smoking Umbrellas?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Smoking Umbrellas hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

71 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 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 Smoking Umbrellas?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 31, 56, 60, 63 and 68.

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