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Where Dragons Dwell · Gojira

EXERCISE 23 OF 35
Join Part J to Part A (bars 75-77)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART A
PART A
PART J
PART A
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAAJAYS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Dragons Dwell on drums

287 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 8:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-76, hi-hat through bars 77-137, silence through bars 138-168 and hi-hat through bars 169-287.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 87 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    171
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Where Dragons Dwell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 136-195 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where Dragons Dwell?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Where Dragons Dwell hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 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 Where Dragons Dwell?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED