Backbone · Gojira

193 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 15-21 and 27-33, and 11 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BACKBONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 41, 42, 68, 101 and 5 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 167 · LANDS ON BAR 168

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 20 sections: 102 keep time, 11 are fills, 52 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 184-193.

PART B
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART B
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDBNKU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backbone?

181 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 Backbone hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 Backbone?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 41, 42, 68, 101 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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