Rock bottom · S-h-a-t-t-e-r-f-i-s-t

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-45, 47-49 and 86-88, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ROCK BOTTOM · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 50, 51 and 14 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 47 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-111.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Y
PART AA
PART AC
PART O
VERSE
OUTRO
12 groovesS1OS13AHAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock bottom?

90 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 Rock bottom hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 50, 51 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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