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This Emptiness · Gojira

EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove V
49 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQCADRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Emptiness on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-54, hi-hat through bars 55-73, snare through bars 74-90 and ride through bars 91-106, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------g---|
BD |x---x---------------------------|
This Emptiness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- Q, R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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