For Mom · Buckethead

204 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 66 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FOR MOM · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 204.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 204
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 10 sections: 181 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-203.

CHORUS
PART I
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHNIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Mom?

130 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 For Mom hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Mom?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 204.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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