Tubthumping · Chumbawamba

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
TUBTHUMPING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 8 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-92.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesPHAIOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tubthumping?

104 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 Tubthumping hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tubthumping?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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