Amazonia · Gojira

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 10 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
AMAZONIA · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 22 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-58.

CHORUS
PART E
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesAGEON+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amazonia?

91 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 Amazonia hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Amazonia?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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