Night Of The Slunk · Buckethead

168 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-64 and 77-96, and 1 more place -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
NIGHT OF THE SLUNK · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 4 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-168.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBS11DS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Of The Slunk?

124 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 Night Of The Slunk hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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