Snakes For Dinner · Mastodon

169 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-60 and 62-64, and 10 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SNAKES FOR DINNER · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 49 and 27 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 34-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 15 sections: 89 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-33.

PART B
PART U
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesXBS15UAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snakes For Dinner?

190 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Snakes For Dinner hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Snakes For Dinner?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 49 and 27 more.

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