Dragon · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

263 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 9:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
9:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DRAGON · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 41 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

263 bars across 17 sections: 129 keep time, 47 are fills, 1 is a stop and 69 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-119.

PART H
PART U
PART AA
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS17HAAUF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragon?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dragon hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 9:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Dragon?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED
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