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Smoking Umbrellas · Failure

EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Groove O -- Outro 2
60 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smoking Umbrellas on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-x---x-----------|
Smoking Umbrellas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED