Circle Of Cysquatch · Mastodon

145 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 60 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 66 are fills, 21 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-35.

PART E
PART N
PART E
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRNAES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Circle Of Cysquatch?

212 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 Circle Of Cysquatch hard to play on drums?

64 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 Circle Of Cysquatch?

11 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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