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Liquid Fire · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove K -- Part K
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0 / 46 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKTACAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liquid Fire on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-23, snare through bars 24-46, ride through bars 47-63, snare through bars 64-86 and kick and crashes through bars 87-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 27-29 and 32-33, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------------------------|
Liquid Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 22, 23, 31 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Liquid Fire?

127 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 Liquid Fire hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Liquid Fire?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 22, 23, 31 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED