Chimes At Midnight · Mastodon

214 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 119 BPM, 10:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
10:07
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 50 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 11-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 56 are fills, 3 are stops and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-54.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AL
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesPS8BACAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chimes At Midnight?

119 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Chimes At Midnight hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 10:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Chimes At Midnight?

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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