Mothra · Atomship

217 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-73, 75-77 and 83-85, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MOTHRA · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 13, 14, 15, 58, 60 and 23 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 31 sections: 96 keep time, 29 are fills, 22 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 194-203.

PART F
BREAK 12
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 13
27 groovesTQACMS31+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mothra?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mothra hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Mothra?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 13, 14, 15, 58, 60 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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