Umbrella · Rihanna

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 11-60 and 67-92 -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
UMBRELLA · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 3 sections: 89 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-59.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Umbrella?

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 hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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