Hang Me From The Bible Belt · No Cure

139 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 54-56, and 4 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HANG ME FROM THE BIBLE BELT · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 30 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 50 keep time, 36 are fills, 28 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-126.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS
PART S
PART J
PART AA
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesMCJAAAJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hang Me From The Bible Belt?

130 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 Hang Me From The Bible Belt hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hang Me From The Bible Belt?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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