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Toes Across The Floor · Blind Melon

EXERCISE 13 OF 49
Groove O -- Part O
39 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART O
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toes Across The Floor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33 and ride through bars 34-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------r-----------------r-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Toes Across The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-51 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED