Umbra · Ghost

201 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-38 and 65-88 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
UMBRA · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 46, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 26 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 11 sections: 149 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-159.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMDSFA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Umbra?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Umbra hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

201 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Umbra?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 46, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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