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Hacksaw Surgery · Guttural Slug

EXERCISE 27 OF 35
Groove P
115 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFNIS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hacksaw Surgery on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hacksaw Surgery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-72 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-68 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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