Tread Lightly · Mastodon

168 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 100-102 and 104-106, and 8 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
TREAD LIGHTLY · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 17, 19, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 55 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 13 sections: 77 keep time, 61 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART AN
CHORUS 2
8 groovesABJFANS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tread Lightly?

134 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 Tread Lightly hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tread Lightly?

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 17, 19, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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