Blood and Thunder · Mastodon

182 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 109, 111-115 and 117, and 6 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BLOOD AND THUNDER · BARS 111-112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 61 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 67 are fills, 21 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

PART D
PART M
PART D
PART L
PART M
PART S8
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAKDMS8AL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood and Thunder?

186 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 Blood and Thunder hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blood and Thunder?

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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