Explosia · Gojira

238 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 163-165, 167-169 and 172, and 15 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
EXPLOSIA · BAR 164
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 42 and 38 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 12 sections: 166 keep time, 44 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-38.

PART A
PART H
PART I
PART A
PART I
PART L
PART R
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesAFAHRI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Explosia?

192 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 Explosia hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Explosia?

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 42 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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