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Bound For The Floor · Local H

EXERCISE 30 OF 36
Fill at bar 92 (a small one)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bound For The Floor on drums

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 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-----|
Bound For The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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.
  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. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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