Binge And Grab · Buckethead

176 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21-23 and 29-31, and 8 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BINGE AND GRAB · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 28, 32 and 28 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 25 sections: 68 keep time, 34 are fills, 45 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-69.

CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART G
PART O
PART M
OUTRO
20 groovesCGPMB+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Binge And Grab?

138 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 Binge And Grab hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Binge And Grab?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 28, 32 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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