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Megalodon · Mastodon

EXERCISE 26 OF 108
Groove Y (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Megalodon on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

ride through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-50 and toms through bars 51-56, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Megalodon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- AZ -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE, BD -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-152 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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