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The Umbrella Gnomes Song · Alternative Competition 4

EXERCISE 16 OF 22
Groove F -- Outro 2
52 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Umbrella Gnomes Song on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-70.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxo-xxx-xxo-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Umbrella Gnomes Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED