Crusher Destroyer · Mastodon

71 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 196 BPM, 1:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-37 and 40-43, and 2 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
CRUSHER DESTROYER · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 14 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 20 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-37.

PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesFS8TCD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crusher Destroyer?

196 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Crusher Destroyer hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crusher Destroyer?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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