ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bottomfeeder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 220 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 194
LENGTH: 3:31
DIFFICULTY: 60/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-50 and snare through bars 51-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    62                               63
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|--------x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--|

Bottomfeeder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Y, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 1-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 22-109 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part L and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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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