The Gods Must Be Crazy! · Periphery

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 22 and 35-36, and 5 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY! · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 29 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 35 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-79.

PART A
PART G
PART N
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART AH
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTFAHAAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gods Must Be Crazy!?

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 Gods Must Be Crazy! hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gods Must Be Crazy!?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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