The Art Of Dying · Gojira

296 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
8:32
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 211-212, 214-215 and 217, and 24 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE ART OF DYING · BARS 211-212
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 77, 85, 87, 93, 94, 95 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 93-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 19 sections: 214 keep time, 17 are fills, 20 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 228-256.

PART A
PART I
PART AG
PART AG
PART AP
PART AP
OUTRO
15 groovesAXAGAPIU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Art Of Dying?

140 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 The Art Of Dying hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 8:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 The Art Of Dying?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 77, 85, 87, 93, 94, 95 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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