Hacked up for barbeque · Mortician

127 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-49, 58-69 and 103-114 -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
HACKED UP FOR BARBEQUE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 11 are fills, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-49.

PART A
PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJADKO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hacked up for barbeque?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hacked up for barbeque hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 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 Hacked up for barbeque?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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