Satan Is A Lawyer · Gojira

148 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 53-59, and 7 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SATAN IS A LAWYER · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 27 and 17 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 23 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-76.

PART O
PART D
PART O
PART V
PART W
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAAOXDV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satan Is A Lawyer?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Satan Is A Lawyer hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Satan Is A Lawyer?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 27 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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