Bound For The Floor · Local H

111 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-23, 33-47 and 73, and 1 more place -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BOUND FOR THE FLOOR · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBPNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bound For The Floor?

119 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 Bound For The Floor hard to play on drums?

59 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?

111 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bound For The Floor?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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