Workhorse (Chorus corrected) · Mastodon

115 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40 and 49-56 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WORKHORSE (CHORUS CORRECTED) · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-87.

PART A
PART G
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AM
PART AU
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesUAMAOAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Workhorse (Chorus corrected)?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Workhorse (Chorus corrected) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Workhorse (Chorus corrected)?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 11 more.

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