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Crusher Destroyer · Mastodon

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Hold Groove T for 8 bars -- Part T (bars 31-38)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crusher Destroyer on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-27 and toms through bars 28-31, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x---------x-----------|
Crusher Destroyer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 8-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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