Bound to the Floor · Local H

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 22 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BOUND TO THE FLOOR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKCNQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bound to the Floor?

120 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 to the Floor hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 to the Floor?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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