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Rock Bottom · UFO

EXERCISE 15 OF 72
Groove I -- Part I
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PART F
PART I
PART E
PART I
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Bottom on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, snare through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-76 and silence through bars 77-80, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-74 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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