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Goliath · Karnivool

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 14 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goliath on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-39, toms through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |--X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-o---x-x-X-|
SD |---g--x--g-g-g-g-g----X--g-g|
BD |X---x-------x---x-x---------|
HF |----------------------x-----|
Goliath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED