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Gila Monster · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove G -- Part G
53 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gila Monster on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Gila Monster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-26 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-44 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-106 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 5 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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