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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

71

LENGTH

3:05

DIFFICULTY

66/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, snare through bars 18-28, silence through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---------x-x-------------|x-x-------x-----x-x-------x-x---|

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

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 16-28 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
5. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part M and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 54-67 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.