Butcher's Hook · Slipknot

125 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 56-58, and 3 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BUTCHER'S HOOK · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 31-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time and 49 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-51.

PART G
PART H
PART O
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAHOUHY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Butcher's Hook?

116 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 Butcher's Hook hard to play on drums?

73 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 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Butcher's Hook?

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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