Esoteric Surgery · Gojira

217 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 138, 140-142 and 144-146, and 11 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
ESOTERIC SURGERY · BAR 138
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 31, 33, 39, 47, 53 and 17 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 13 sections: 166 keep time, 23 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 184-199.

PART B
PART I
PART B
PART I
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACIBEAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Esoteric Surgery?

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

Is Esoteric Surgery hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Esoteric Surgery?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 31, 33, 39, 47, 53 and 17 more.

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