The Umbrella Gnomes Song · Alternative Competition 4

70 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-31 and 50-53 -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE UMBRELLA GNOMES SONG · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 1 is a fill and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-49.

COUNT-IN
PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDFS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Umbrella Gnomes Song?

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 The Umbrella Gnomes Song hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Umbrella Gnomes Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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