The Mountain · Three Days Grace

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 19-21 and 23-26, and 6 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THE MOUNTAIN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 28, 32, 40 and 7 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-63.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mountain?

93 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 The Mountain 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Mountain?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 28, 32, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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