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The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe v3 · Gojira

EXERCISE 8 OF 64
Groove J -- Part J
44 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART T
PART W
PART T
PART AB
PART AB
PART AH
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesETABAHW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe v3 on drums

110 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 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
110
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
96/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-39 and ride through bars 40-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 35-38 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------|
The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe v3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe v3?

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 v3 hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 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 Heaviest Matter Of The Universe v3?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED