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Bottom Feeder · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART R
PART V
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFRHLAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bottom Feeder on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-33, toms through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-44, snare through bars 45-69 and toms through bars 70-77, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 46-52 and 114-116, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bottom Feeder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 61, 85, 90, 97, 105 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-20 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bottom Feeder?

121 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bottom Feeder hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bottom Feeder?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 61, 85, 90, 97, 105 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED