Every Planet We Reach Is Dead · Gorillaz

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 23-32 and 41-57 -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
EVERY PLANET WE REACH IS DEAD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADS5S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Every Planet We Reach Is Dead?

88 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 Every Planet We Reach Is Dead hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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