Show Yourself · Mastodon

102 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SHOW YOURSELF · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 21 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 5 sections: 69 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAQS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Show Yourself?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Show Yourself hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 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 Show Yourself?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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