Astroturf · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

368 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 7:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
368
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 64 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
ASTROTURF · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 36, 68 and 36 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

368 bars across 32 sections: 269 keep time, 42 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-67.

PART B
CHORUS
12 groovesJIBRZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astroturf?

196 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 Astroturf hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

368 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Astroturf?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 36, 68 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 368 BARS ANALYSED
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