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Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live · Rihanna

EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Groove H
53 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART A
PART Z
OUTRO
8 groovesKEMZA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 28 and 30, and 5 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 43, 44 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-74 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live?

87 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 Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Umbrella - 蕾哈娜傘 - live?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 43, 44 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED