Mausoleum · A Lot Like Birds

137 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 62-64 and 66-69 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MAUSOLEUM · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 22 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 23 sections: 54 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART I
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART I
PART AG
BREAK 9
19 groovesS23AGUIO+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mausoleum?

140 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mausoleum hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Mausoleum?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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