The Umbrella Man · Alternative Competition 2

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-45, 51-54 and 60-63, and 2 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE UMBRELLA MAN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 25, 35 and 14 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 23 sections: 70 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

CHORUS
PART D
PART O
BREAK 4
15 groovesAOMDS16+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Umbrella Man?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Man hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Umbrella Man?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 25, 35 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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