Crystal Mountain · Death

204 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 49-51, and 10 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 177 BPM
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN · BAR 41
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 44 and 31 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 19 sections: 141 keep time, 37 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-51.

PART F
CHORUS
PART AN
PART AZ
PART F
CHORUS 2
13 groovesXFJOT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crystal Mountain?

177 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Crystal Mountain hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 32 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Crystal Mountain?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 44 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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