This Emptiness · Gojira

163 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 17 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
THIS EMPTINESS · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 30 are fills, 33 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQCADRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Emptiness?

142 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 This Emptiness hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 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 This Emptiness?

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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