Buttersnips · Periphery

154 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-35 and 42-49 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BUTTERSNIPS · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 18, 56, 58 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-143.

CHORUS 2
PART O
PART O
PART W
PART C
PART AK
PART AR
CHORUS 3
PART BC
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesEBFCOW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buttersnips?

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 Buttersnips hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Buttersnips?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 18, 56, 58 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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