Gemini · Slayer

152 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 116-119, 121-122 and 125-139 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GEMINI · BARS 121-122
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 and 23 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 29 are fills, 31 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-141.

PART A
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLAAVVE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gemini?

110 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 Gemini hard to play on drums?

64 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gemini?

23 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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