Planned Obsolescence · Gojira

142 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 207 BPM
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 72, 84, 88 and 6 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 207 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 8 sections: 111 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AB
OUTRO
6 groovesBABMGA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Planned Obsolescence?

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

Is Planned Obsolescence hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 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 Planned Obsolescence?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 72, 84, 88 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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