The Shooting Star · Gojira

165 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 14 more places -- 67.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE SHOOTING STAR · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 68, 84, 92, 100 and 124.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 4 sections: 86 keep time, 6 are fills, 63 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-165.

PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBJS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shooting Star?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Shooting Star hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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 Shooting Star?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 68, 84, 92, 100 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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