Aqua Dementia · Mastodon

168 bars at 256 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
256 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35, 38 and 41, and 15 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 256 BPM
AQUA DEMENTIA · BARS 61-62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 35 more.

LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 41 are fills, 25 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-57.

PART D
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesNDPS12AE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aqua Dementia?

256 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aqua Dementia hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Aqua Dementia?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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