Goliath · The Living Tombstone

104 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39, 44-71 and 73-87, and 1 more place -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
GOLIATH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 2 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-104.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goliath?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Goliath hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Goliath?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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