Workhorse · Mastodon

115 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 134 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 73-75, 77-79 and 81-83, and 1 more place -- 9.1% 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
WORKHORSE · BARS 73-74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 34, 36 and 19 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 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: 66 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-87.

PART A
PART G
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AP
PART AX
OUTRO
10 groovesUAPAOAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Workhorse?

134 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 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 34, 36 and 19 more.

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