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Rock bottom · S-h-a-t-t-e-r-f-i-s-t

Rock bottom · S-h-a-t-t-e-r-f-i-s-t
EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Groove P
70 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock bottom on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-41, hi-hat through bars 42-56 and ride through bars 57-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
HH |-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rock bottom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-44 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-80 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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