Backbone drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Backbone by Gojira is 181 BPM and runs 4:10: 195 bars and 2,769 notes played on the kick, snare, hi-hat, crash, ride, tom 2 and tom 1.
The drum part is rated Extreme — one of the hardest parts here, best learned a section at a time.
It has 4 fills, its longest section is the [G] —Breakdown (0:33) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Intro
- [A] —Band In
- [B] —Bridge
- [A] —Verse
- [B]
- [A]
- [B] —Bridge
- [C] —Blast
- [D] —Double bass
- [C] —Blast
- [E] —Dissonant
- [D] —Double bass
- [E] —Dissonant
- Re-Intro
- [A] —Verse
- [B] —Bridge
- [F] —Interlude
- [G] —Breakdown
- [B] —Bridge
- Outro
How to play Backbone on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Backbone come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill at bar 182 at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 181 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Backbone drum cover.
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