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Snakes For Dinner · Mastodon

EXERCISE 19 OF 73
Join Part B to Part U (bars 37-39)
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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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snakes For Dinner on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22 and toms through bars 23-29, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---------x---|
BD |x---x-----x-x-x-----|
Snakes For Dinner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- X, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-75 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-78 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-54 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED