Rock Bottom · UFO

252 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 29, and 17 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 159 BPM
ROCK BOTTOM · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 35, 39, 42 and 24 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 21 sections: 169 keep time, 30 are fills, 16 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-161.

PART F
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART T
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesGEITM+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Bottom?

159 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 35, 39, 42 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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