Sphinx · Gojira

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-12, 22 and 24, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SPHINX · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 13, 21, 23, 25 and 12 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 13 sections: 57 keep time, 18 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-96.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
PART J
PART P
PART X
PART AA
PART X
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGPXJAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sphinx?

97 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 Sphinx hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sphinx?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 13, 21, 23, 25 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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