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Goliath (Live) · Karnivool

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS4TS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goliath (Live) on drums

89 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 4:37 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
130 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:37
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
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-o---x-x-X-x-|
SD |-g--x--g-g-g-g-g----X--g-g-g|
BD |--x-------x---x-x---------x-|
HF |--------------------x-------|
Goliath (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Goliath (Live)?

130 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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 7 sittings, about 19 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 (Live)?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED