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Umbrella · Rihanna

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 6 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Umbrella on drums

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

60 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
92
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-92.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---xxxxxxxxxxxx|o---xxxxxxxoxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xx--|
BD |x------x--x-----|xx-----x--x-----|
HF |--x-------------|--x-------------|
Umbrella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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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