Honey Bucket · Melvins

106 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-42 and 44-58, and 2 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
HONEY BUCKET · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 26 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 32 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-58.

PART E
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
7 groovesVEAEZS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Honey Bucket?

170 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 Honey Bucket hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Honey Bucket?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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