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Dawn · Gojira

EXERCISE 14 OF 38
Groove I
133 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesDNFS10B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dawn on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, snare through bars 42-54, ride through bars 55-57, hi-hat through bars 58-77 and snare through bars 78-90, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-40, 58-76 and 94-108 -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|
Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 58-120 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dawn?

144 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 Dawn hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 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 Dawn?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED