Gila Monster · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

134 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18 and 20, and 23 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
GILA MONSTER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-124.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART M
6 groovesBGDMS12+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gila Monster?

128 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 Gila Monster hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Gila Monster?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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