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Floaty · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Fill at bar 20, 24, 28 and 9 more (a small one)
104 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Floaty on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52 and snare through bars 53-67, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x----x-|
Floaty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-52 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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