Hand of Stone v2 · Mastodon

175 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 3:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 12 and 35-36, and 18 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
HAND OF STONE V2 · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 60 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 17 sections: 67 keep time, 66 are fills, 23 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-39.

PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART C
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCUQT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand of Stone v2?

155 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hand of Stone v2 hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Hand of Stone v2?

24 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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