Ocean Planet · Gojira

163 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 35, 54, 66, 88, 90 and 10 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 8 sections: 123 keep time, 16 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAIXKU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ocean Planet?

117 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 Ocean Planet hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Ocean Planet?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 35, 54, 66, 88, 90 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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