Toxic Garbage Island · Gojira

140 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 125-131, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
TOXIC GARBAGE ISLAND · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 33, 50, 51, 59, 67 and 4 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKFASN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Toxic Garbage Island?

152 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 Toxic Garbage Island hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 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 Toxic Garbage Island?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 33, 50, 51, 59, 67 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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