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Curl Of The Burl · Mastodon

EXERCISE 16 OF 62
Groove M (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART C
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDADCALI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Curl Of The Burl on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---g--------x--------g-----g--------x--------g--|
BD |x--------x-----x--x--------------x-----x--x-----|
Curl Of The Burl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-90 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Curl Of The Burl?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Curl Of The Burl hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Curl Of The Burl?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED