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Rock Bottom · Modern Baseball

EXERCISE 14 OF 24
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-23)
73 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesKGAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Bottom on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-48, snare through bars 49-56, silence through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-82.

The beat

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.

    59               60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-----x-x-----x-|
Rock Bottom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-75 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED