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Circle Of Cysquatch · Mastodon

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove R -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circle Of Cysquatch on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32, 48 and 74, and 10 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    121              122
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x---x--x|
Circle Of Cysquatch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-25 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-74 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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