Stranded (Open Dm) · Gojira

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-29, 39-41 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
STRANDED (OPEN DM) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 8 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-61.

PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesMHS8AU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranded (Open Dm)?

93 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 Stranded (Open Dm) hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Stranded (Open Dm)?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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