Hacksaw Surgery · Guttural Slug

138 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 19 and 23, and 16 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HACKSAW SURGERY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 55, 59, 99 and 103.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills, 19 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFNIS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hacksaw Surgery?

180 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 Hacksaw Surgery 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hacksaw Surgery?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 55, 59, 99 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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