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The River · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS7S5S3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The River on drums

375 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 10:42 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
375
LENGTH
10:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-96, silence through bars 97-105, ride through bars 106-213, silence through bars 214-244 and ride through bars 245-300, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 41 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------------------x---------------|
The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 56, 88, 121, 129, 141 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-214 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The River?

170 BPM, in 5/4, 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 River hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

375 bars, about 10:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 River?

1 fill to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 56, 88, 121, 129, 141 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 375 BARS ANALYSED