gigapassoid · bram

60 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 1:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18 and 20-22 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
GIGAPASSOID · BARS 16-17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 19 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 7-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 8 sections: 28 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-58.

CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART R
PART S6
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesEOAAS6S8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is gigapassoid?

97 BPM, in 3/4, 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 gigapassoid hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 gigapassoid?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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