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Bootlicker · Deadlast

Bootlicker · Deadlast
EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Groove L -- Part L
50 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART L
PART G
PART E
OUTRO
13 groovesS19GLBF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bootlicker on drums

192 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-29, silence through bars 30-33, ride through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-114 and kick and crashes through bars 115-133, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 22-25 and 82-85, and 1 more place -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bootlicker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 73-114 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bootlicker?

160 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 Bootlicker hard to play on drums?

50 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bootlicker?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED