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Goliath · The Living Tombstone

EXERCISE 4 OF 8
Groove E
93 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goliath on drums

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

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-104.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Goliath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED