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A Sight to Behold · Gojira

EXERCISE 6 OF 73
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Sight to Behold on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-82, ride through bars 83-98, snare through bars 99-179 and ride through bars 180-195, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    120
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------x---|
A Sight to Behold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 10-77 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-90 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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