Float On · Modest Mouse

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-87 -- 97.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
FLOAT ON · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 88
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars: 87 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-87.

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

Questions

What BPM is Float On?

102 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 Float On hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Float On?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

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