Butter Barn Hoedown · Epic Games

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 18-21 and 34-37, and 1 more place -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BUTTER BARN HOEDOWN · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 25, 41, 45 and 5 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Butter Barn Hoedown?

99 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 Butter Barn Hoedown hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Butter Barn Hoedown?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 25, 41, 45 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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