Blow Me Away You (Niverse) · Gojira

217 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 9 and 12, and 41 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BLOW ME AWAY YOU (NIVERSE) · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 13, 18, 26, 29, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 25 are fills, 87 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-104.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesCINS11S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow Me Away You (Niverse)?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blow Me Away You (Niverse) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Blow Me Away You (Niverse)?

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 13, 18, 26, 29, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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