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Umbrella · All Time Low

EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Hold Groove E for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 25-32)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
8 groovesECBAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Umbrella on drums

163 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-66, snare through bars 67-82, hi-hat through bars 83-109 and snare through bars 110-159, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 35-37, and 17 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Umbrella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-115 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 48-109 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 107-115 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 113-153 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Umbrella?

175 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 Umbrella hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Umbrella?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED