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Grind · Gojira

EXERCISE 4 OF 66
Groove F -- Part F
46 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART F
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AC
10 groovesEFKVA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grind on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-30, ride through bars 31-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-49, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 30 and 66-69, and 17 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    67
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
Grind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 33, 61, 62 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-10 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Grind?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Grind hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Grind?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 33, 61, 62 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED