Welcome to Bucketheadland · Buckethead

129 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 40 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WELCOME TO BUCKETHEADLAND · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time, 24 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-129.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome to Bucketheadland?

115 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 Welcome to Bucketheadland 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Buckethead drum parts

EVERY BUCKETHEAD CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →