Magma · Gojira

208 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-4 and 9, and 51 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
MAGMA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 24, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 28 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 17 sections: 132 keep time, 34 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART X
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABXJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Magma?

133 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 Magma hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Magma?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 24, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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