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The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe · Gojira

EXERCISE 25 OF 79
Groove W -- Part W
114 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
PART M
PART W
PART AD
PART AF
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART AW
12 groovesAMAFATADM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe on drums

200 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30, toms through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-38, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48, and 13 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 17 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe?

207 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 Heaviest Matter Of The Universe hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Heaviest Matter Of The Universe?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 17 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED