The Mask · Chat Pile

137 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 2:51 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THE MASK · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 57, 61, 73, 110, 111 and 7 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 8 sections: 73 keep time, 15 are fills and 41 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-128.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGQAEAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mask?

152 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Mask hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Mask?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 57, 61, 73, 110, 111 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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