In the Forest · Gojira

290 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 15:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
15:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 131-132, 135-136 and 139-140, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
IN THE FOREST · BARS 131-132
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 12, 21, 88, 89, 90 and 3 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 22 sections: 196 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-176.

CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AP
BREAK 4
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 5
18 groovesUAPS19S22AS+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the Forest?

84 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 In the Forest hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 15:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 In the Forest?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 12, 21, 88, 89, 90 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
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