Bottom · Mccafferty

113 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 27-31 and 33, and 5 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BOTTOM · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 51, 53, 55, 62, 80, 88 and 9 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 15 are fills, 11 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-23.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
PART L
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGLVHI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bottom?

132 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 Bottom hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bottom?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 51, 53, 55, 62, 80, 88 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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