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Butcher's Hook · Slipknot

EXERCISE 6 OF 70
Groove G -- Part G
37 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Butcher's Hook on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-30, toms through bars 31-39, hi-hat through bars 40-51 and snare through bars 52-61, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---------x-----x---|x-----x-----x---------x---x-----|
Butcher's Hook -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-41 -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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