Indians · Gojira

149 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 44-46, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
INDIANS · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a fill, 44 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-98.

CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCUZLM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Indians?

118 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 Indians hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Indians?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

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