Blood And Thunder Tab (E standard) · Mastodon

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 29-30, and 3 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BLOOD AND THUNDER TAB (E STANDARD) · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 35 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time, 41 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-53.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICVAEZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood And Thunder Tab (E standard)?

95 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 Blood And Thunder Tab (E standard) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 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 Tab (E standard)?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 35 more.

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