Gardenia · Kyuss

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 12, and 15 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
GARDENIA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 30 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 36 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-106.

CHORUS
PART M
PART D
PART M
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABEDMAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gardenia?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Gardenia hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gardenia?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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