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.

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

TEMPO

119 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

111

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and ride through bars 89-104, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 21-50 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Bars 79-89 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.