Megalodon · Mastodon

199 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-73, 75 and 77, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
MEGALODON · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 77 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 83 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-111.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AZ
PART AZ
PART BD
PART BN
PART BS
PART CE
PART BN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAAZBDBNAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Megalodon?

152 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 Megalodon hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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 Megalodon?

28 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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