Goliath · Karnivool

90 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 131 BPM, 4:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 12 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
GOLIATH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 21 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 3 sections: 22 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-34.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goliath?

131 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Goliath hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Goliath?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 21 more.

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