Bumblefoot (Part Three) · Bumblefoot

15 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:26 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
15
LENGTH
0:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6 and 10-11 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BUMBLEFOOT (PART THREE) · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 14-15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars: 4 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are stops.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bumblefoot (Part Three)?

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 Three) hard to play on drums?

57 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?

15 bars, about 0:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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 Three)?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 3 more.

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