Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) · Gojira

116 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-89, 103 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MEA CULPA (AH! ÇA IRA!) · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 35, 44, 47, 93, 94 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 10 are fills, 20 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-43.

PART B
PART G
PART I
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKGBIL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 35, 44, 47, 93, 94 and 4 more.

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