Oroborus · Gojira

164 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-31, 34-35 and 38-39, and 5 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
OROBORUS · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 58 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-123.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AC
PART AK
PART AL
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANARACAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oroborus?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Oroborus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Oroborus?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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