Perihelion · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-100 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PERIHELION · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-100.

PART D
PART G
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNGDTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perihelion?

130 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 Perihelion hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Perihelion?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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