Orion · Mastodon

324 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 8:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
324
LENGTH
8:48
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 137-139, 141-143 and 145-147, and 10 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ORION · BAR 138
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 49, 88, 104 and 52 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

324 bars across 25 sections: 132 keep time, 58 are fills, 85 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AW
OUTRO 2
18 groovesAEHAMAWE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orion?

128 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 Orion 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

324 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Orion?

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 49, 88, 104 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 324 BARS ANALYSED
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