Seabeast · Mastodon

100 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 59 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 17 and 57 -- 3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 59 BPM
SEABEAST · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 23 and 32 more.

LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 38 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-34.

PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART AS
PART L
PART AP
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPAPLDAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seabeast?

59 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Seabeast hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Seabeast?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 23 and 32 more.

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