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Planet B · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Groove N
96 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
PART T
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKTDS13A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Planet B on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-19, toms through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-35, ride through bars 36-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Planet B -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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