Bumblefoot (Part One) · Bumblefoot

50 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 11-12, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BUMBLEFOOT (PART ONE) · BARS 3-4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 10 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 20 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCNS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bumblefoot (Part One)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bumblefoot (Part One) hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Bumblefoot (Part One)?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 10 more.

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