Bounce · System of a Down

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 1:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-16 and 21-24, and 1 more place -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BOUNCE · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 40.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 8 sections: 27 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART F
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesAFBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bounce?

94 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 Bounce hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bounce?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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