Human Cannonballl · Butthole surfers

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 15-20 and 24-26, and 3 more places -- 67.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
HUMAN CANNONBALLL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 78 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-83.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Human Cannonballl?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Human Cannonballl hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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