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Low Lands · Gojira

EXERCISE 13 OF 36
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 63-65)
107 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAWGMF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Low Lands on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-104, snare through bars 105-120, toms through bars 121-134 and ride through bars 135-137, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 27 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-gggXggg-gggXggg|XgggXggg-gggXggg|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x|--x--x--x--x--x-|
Low Lands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 118-137 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Low Lands?

149 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 Low Lands hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Low Lands?

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED