Planet B · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

162 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
PLANET B · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 21, 22, 27 and 18 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 98 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-128.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKTDS13A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Planet B?

187 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Planet B hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Planet B?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 21, 22, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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