The Way Of All Flesh · Gojira

191 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-141, 143 and 145-149, and 4 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH · BAR 137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 33 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 39 are fills, 39 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART C
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART X
PART W
PART AP
PART AQ
OUTRO
12 groovesLWAPIC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way Of All Flesh?

178 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 Way Of All Flesh hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Way Of All Flesh?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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