Soothsayer · Buckethead

173 bars, 9:14, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
9:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-116 and 141-171 -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SOOTHSAYER · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 172 · LANDS ON BAR 173
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 13 sections: 146 keep time, 1 is a fill, 10 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-116.

PART B
PART B
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDBS1S11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soothsayer?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Soothsayer hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 9:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Soothsayer?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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