A Sight to Behold · Gojira

223 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 24 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
A SIGHT TO BEHOLD · BAR 120
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 66, 82, 106, 114, 118 and 20 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 17 sections: 165 keep time, 27 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

PART A
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AA
OUTRO
9 groovesEAALFN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Sight to Behold?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Sight to Behold hard to play on drums?

75 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?

223 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 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 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 A Sight to Behold?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 66, 82, 106, 114, 118 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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