Mea Culpa · Gojira

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-16, 20 and 24 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MEA CULPA · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41 and 6 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 39-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 37 keep time, 12 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

CHORUS
PART I
PART S3
PART M
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesEMLIY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mea Culpa?

90 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 Mea Culpa hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 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 Mea Culpa?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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