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Human Cannonballl · Butthole surfers

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human Cannonballl on drums

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

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-84.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-18 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-84 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED