The Cell · Gojira

138 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 83-89, and 5 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE CELL · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 82, 90, 106 and 8 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 8 sections: 106 keep time, 14 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Cell?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Cell hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 The Cell?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 82, 90, 106 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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