Royal Mollusk · Tiburón

159 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 7 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ROYAL MOLLUSK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 16 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 69-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 19 sections: 83 keep time, 22 are fills, 15 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-90.

CHORUS
PART L
PART U
PART W
BREAK
PART AJ
OUTRO
13 groovesBEHWAN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Royal Mollusk?

175 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 Royal Mollusk hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Royal Mollusk?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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