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The Link · Gojira

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EXERCISE 13 OF 59
Fill at bar 24 and 30 (a small one)
65 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesPABBAII+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Link on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 and 52-59 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |x-----------------------------------------------|
T2 |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Link -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC (a two-bar phrase), P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-64 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Link?

86 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 Link hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 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 Link?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED