Buried In The Backyard · Cannibal Corpse

189 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-22, and 31 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BURIED IN THE BACKYARD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 42, 43, 67 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 14 sections: 147 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBTURE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buried In The Backyard?

135 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 Buried In The Backyard hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 20 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 Buried In The Backyard?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 42, 43, 67 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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