Superfast Jellyfish · Gorillaz

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8-10 and 13-14, and 10 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SUPERFAST JELLYFISH · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-54.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superfast Jellyfish?

82 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 Superfast Jellyfish hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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