Inward Movement · Gojira

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 10:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

77 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

176

LENGTH

10:24

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-84, ride through bars 85-90 and snare through bars 91-98, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-90, 99-106 and 109-110, and 4 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85                       86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------------------------|------------x---x---x---|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x---------x---|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x---|

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23 and 11 more.

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- X, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 31-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part M and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 53-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 87-102 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 105-116 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.