Bottomfeeder · Blessthefall

194 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-64, 66-68 and 70-72, and 13 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BOTTOMFEEDER · BARS 62-63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 21 and 8 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 12 sections: 135 keep time, 14 are fills, 30 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-134.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPYLGAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bottomfeeder?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bottomfeeder 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bottomfeeder?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 21 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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