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Bound to the Floor · Local H

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKCNQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bound to the Floor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 3-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-50, ride through bars 51-55, snare through bars 56-64 and ride through bars 65-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Bound to the Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-53 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-68 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-85 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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