Blasteroid · Mastodon

113 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 25, and 12 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BLASTEROID · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 43 and 9 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time, 15 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-57.

PART A
PART Q
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIAKTQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blasteroid?

192 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 Blasteroid hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blasteroid?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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