Trilobite · Mastodon

158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 67 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 73 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-148.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART I
PART AA
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART BM
PART BK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
13 groovesANIAAMBK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trilobite?

96 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 Trilobite hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Trilobite?

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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