The Chant · Gojira

160 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 34-39, and 18 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE CHANT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 10 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 104 keep time, 16 are fills and 29 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDITXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Chant?

125 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 Chant hard to play on drums?

58 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Chant?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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