L'enfant Sauvage drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
L'enfant Sauvage by Gojira is 130 BPM and runs 3:56: 118 bars and 2,731 notes played on the kick, snare, crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 9 fills, its longest section is the Breakdown (0:45) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Intro
- Pre-Verse
- Verse
- Main riff
- Pre-Verse
- Verse
- Main riff
- Bridge
- Bridge Verse
- Interlude
- Breakdown
- Main riff
How to play L'enfant Sauvage on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of L'enfant Sauvage 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 101 at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 130 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your L'enfant Sauvage drum cover.
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