Butcher · Deadlast

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 23, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BUTCHER · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 67, 117, 118 and 119.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 117-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 81 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-50.

PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART P
PART T
BREAK 2
13 groovesIEPS13C+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Butcher?

140 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 Butcher hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Butcher?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 67, 117, 118 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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