Born For One Thing · Gojira

150 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-54, 61-62 and 71-78, and 4 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BORN FOR ONE THING · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 10 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 20 sections: 106 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART A
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOHAMY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born For One Thing?

148 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 Born For One Thing hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Born For One Thing?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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