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The Gift Of Guilt · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
PART F
PART J
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPBFS1J+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Gift Of Guilt on drums

221 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-38, ride through bars 39-57, snare through bars 58-71, ride through bars 72-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-108, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 27-38 and 58-66, and 19 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
The Gift Of Guilt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 39, 40, 77, 93, 102, 109 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-44 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-73 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-94 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-173 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Gift Of Guilt?

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

Is The Gift Of Guilt hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 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 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 Gift Of Guilt?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 39, 40, 77, 93, 102, 109 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED