Floaty · Foo Fighters

164 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 59, and 24 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FLOATY · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 58, 68 and 16 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 114-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 13 sections: 106 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-150.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Floaty?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Floaty 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Floaty?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 58, 68 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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