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Capillarian Crest · Mastodon

EXERCISE 27 OF 106
Groove L -- Part L
73 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
PART L
PART L
PART S
PART AL
PART AR
13 groovesAASAABAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Capillarian Crest on drums

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.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
97/100

ride through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48 and ride through bars 49-50, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    68
    1.......2.......3...
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----g---g-|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---|
Capillarian Crest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED