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Toe to Toes · Mastodon

EXERCISE 2 OF 83
Groove B -- Chorus
20 / 137 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART T
PART AE
PART AJ
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBMJAJR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toe to Toes on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30-31 and 34-36, and 8 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------x-----------|
Toe to Toes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-61 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-41 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Toe to Toes?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Toe to Toes hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 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 Toe to Toes?

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED