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The Chant · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDITXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chant on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-62 and ride through bars 63-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
The Chant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-69 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-105 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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