Pray · Gojira

248 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-70 and 161-170 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 206 BPM
PRAY · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 94, 106, 120, 128, 135, 136 and 10 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 135-136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 17 sections: 188 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-71.

PART S2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART T
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFCMTAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pray?

206 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 Pray hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

248 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Pray?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 94, 106, 120, 128, 135, 136 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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