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Godzilla · Blue Öyster Cult

EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Groove O -- Verse
74 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesEAOJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Godzilla on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-19, 29-31 and 33-35, and 12 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Godzilla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 20, 21, 22 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-29 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Godzilla?

90 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 Godzilla hard to play on drums?

49 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Godzilla?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 20, 21, 22 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED