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Gobblers of Dregs · Mastodon

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART Z
PART AK
PART Z
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAKZSAZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gobblers of Dregs on drums

178 bars, 11:13, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
11:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-69, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--------x--------x--------|
Gobblers of Dregs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 76, 77, 78 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gobblers of Dregs?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Gobblers of Dregs hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 11:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Gobblers of Dregs?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 76, 77, 78 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED