Bottle Up and Explode! · Elliott Smith

62 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-13 and 15-61 -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BOTTLE UP AND EXPLODE! · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 2 sections: 56 keep time, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-61.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bottle Up and Explode!?

117 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 Bottle Up and Explode! hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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