The Spell · Mammoth

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-28, 37-39 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE SPELL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 21 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-77.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLFCACV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Spell?

100 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 Spell hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Spell?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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