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Blasteroid · Mastodon

EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove H
31 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART K, CHORUS
PART A
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIAKTQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blasteroid on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10 and toms through bars 11-12, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-x-x---x---|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Blasteroid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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