Death Of Me · Gojira

210 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 18 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DEATH OF ME · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 25, 67, 68, 80, 106 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 17 sections: 139 keep time, 20 are fills, 16 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-61.

PART F
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
PART W
PART Q
CHORUS 2
BREAK
11 groovesKQWACE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Of Me?

130 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 Death Of Me hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Death Of Me?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 25, 67, 68, 80, 106 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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