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.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

86

LENGTH

3:26

DIFFICULTY

61/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 4 more changes after that.

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x-xx--x-x|

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

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part C and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 27-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Bars 53-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 57-69 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.