From The Sky · Gojira

177 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 42-56 and 98-104, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
FROM THE SKY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 41, 57 and 29 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 126 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART AI
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEABAAIAT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Sky?

116 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 From The Sky hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 From The Sky?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 41, 57 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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