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Only Pain · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART S9
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAKS12CB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Pain on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-45 and silence through bars 46-49, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-20 and 29-32 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----|
SD |------------g-----------------------g-----------------------g---------g-|
BD |g-----g-----g-g-g-g-----g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g---------g-------g-----|
Only Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 28 and 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Only Pain?

100 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 Only Pain hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 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 Only Pain?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 28 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED