Rock Bottom · Modern Baseball

82 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-55, 59-65 and 67-73, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
ROCK BOTTOM · BARS 59-60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 31, 49, 66 and 74.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 68 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesKGAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Bottom?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock Bottom hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rock Bottom?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 31, 49, 66 and 74.

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