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Gamma Knife · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 10 OF 21
Groove F
50 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS6HEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gamma Knife on drums

80 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 4:22 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-50, snare through bars 51-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56 and silence through bars 57-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 13-16 and 19, and 4 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Gamma Knife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 28 and 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gamma Knife?

104 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Gamma Knife hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gamma Knife?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 28 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED