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Golden Spires · Mastodon

EXERCISE 20 OF 107
Groove U
68 / 188 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Golden Spires on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-31, hi-hat through bars 32-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Golden Spires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- N, AT -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part X -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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