Golden Spires · Mastodon

188 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GOLDEN SPIRES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 36 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 19 sections: 113 keep time, 42 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-174.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART BD
PART BJ
PART BP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNATAAAHBD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Golden Spires?

135 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 Golden Spires hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 28 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 Golden Spires?

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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