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Honey Bucket · Melvins

EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove AE -- Part AE (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Honey Bucket on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-72, toms through bars 73-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-106.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- V -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-70 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-76 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-106 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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