Shake Hands With Beef · Primus

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 31 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SHAKE HANDS WITH BEEF · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 32, 34, 42, 51, 63 and 11 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-29.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDHLVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake Hands With Beef?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shake Hands With Beef hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Shake Hands With Beef?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 32, 34, 42, 51, 63 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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