Steambreather · Mastodon

203 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 9 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
STEAMBREATHER · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 124, 125, 126, 132, 137, 143 and 5 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 124-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 18 sections: 156 keep time, 11 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-101.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AT
PART Z
OUTRO
12 groovesDZNATAZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Steambreather?

168 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Steambreather hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Steambreather?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 124, 125, 126, 132, 137, 143 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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