Robot Stop · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-18, 23-25 and 44-46, and 7 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ROBOT STOP · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 25 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 97 keep time and 31 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-112.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGJFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Robot Stop?

98 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 Robot Stop hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Robot Stop?

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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