Capillarian Crest · Mastodon

175 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-72, 77-82 and 87-92, and 2 more places -- 17% 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
CAPILLARIAN CREST · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16 and 43 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 26 sections: 92 keep time, 49 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-124.

PART A
PART S
PART AL
PART AR
13 groovesAASAABAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Capillarian Crest?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Capillarian Crest hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Capillarian Crest?

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16 and 43 more.

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