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Art of Dying · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove BG -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART P
PART AN
PART AN
PART AX
PART AX
OUTRO
14 groovesBGANAXABP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 6
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Art of Dying on drums

296 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
8:32
DIFFICULTY
89/100

snare through bars 1-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-77, hi-hat through bars 78-93, toms through bars 94-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-111, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 211-212, 214-215 and 217, and 25 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    211                                              212
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----x-----------------------------x--x--|x-----------------x-----------x-----x-----------|
Art of Dying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 77, 85, 87, 93, 94, 95 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- BG, AN -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Art of Dying?

140 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 Art of Dying hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 8:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 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 Art of Dying?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 77, 85, 87, 93, 94, 95 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED