Aquabot · Buckethead

187 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-185 -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 142 BPM
AQUABOT · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 186.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 186 · LANDS ON BAR 187
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars: 162 keep time, 1 is a fill and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-185.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aquabot?

142 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 Aquabot hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Aquabot?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 186.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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