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Black Mammoth · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 23 OF 71
Groove L
75 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
PART K
PART N
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART AD
OUTRO
11 groovesTKWCAG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Mammoth on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-21 and toms through bars 22-34, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-56, 58-64 and 66, and 3 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Black Mammoth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- T, AG -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-51 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Mammoth?

138 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 Black Mammoth hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Black Mammoth?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED