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Space Time · Gojira

EXERCISE 10 OF 54
Groove F
109 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Z
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesJDNZAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Time on drums

203 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-31, snare through bars 32-65, ride through bars 66-74, snare through bars 75-105 and ride through bars 106-112, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 42-48 and 51-56, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Space Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 34, 49, 50, 65, 67 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-145 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Space Time?

170 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 Space Time hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Space Time?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 34, 49, 50, 65, 67 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED