Toes Across The Floor · Blind Melon

89 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 36-38 and 40-47 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
TOES ACROSS THE FLOOR · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 24, 33, 55, 59, 67 and 3 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 9 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHPBGAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Toes Across The Floor?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Toes Across The Floor hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 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 Toes Across The Floor?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 24, 33, 55, 59, 67 and 3 more.

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