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Lizard Skin · Gojira

EXERCISE 25 OF 56
Groove N
119 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS
9 groovesZQTBI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lizard Skin on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 7:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
7:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25 and ride through bars 26-31, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-58, 60-65 and 92-98, and 1 more place -- 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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---X---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Lizard Skin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- Q, T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lizard Skin?

93 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Lizard Skin hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 7:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 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 Lizard Skin?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED