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Hand of Stone v2 · Mastodon

EXERCISE 16 OF 88
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 12-18)
87 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hand of Stone v2 on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-27, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Hand of Stone v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-19 -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-120 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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