More Than I Could Chew · Mastodon

142 bars, 11:10, at 53 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
11:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 41-47, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 53 BPM
MORE THAN I COULD CHEW · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 33 more.

LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 39 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART O
PART Z
7 groovesBOZES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Than I Could Chew?

53 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is More Than I Could Chew hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 11:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 More Than I Could Chew?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 33 more.

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