Mother Puncher · Mastodon

97 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 3:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-84 and 86-87 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MOTHER PUNCHER · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 28 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 34 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-84.

PART A
PART H
PART O
PART T
CHORUS
PART AR
PART BA
OUTRO
10 groovesABARBATH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Puncher?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Mother Puncher hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Mother Puncher?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 28 more.

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