To Sirius · Gojira

213 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 63-69, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
TO SIRIUS · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 15, 21, 34 and 13 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 11 sections: 148 keep time, 19 are fills, 16 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-199.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesBACHS11T+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Sirius?

169 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 To Sirius hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 To Sirius?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 15, 21, 34 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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