Toxic Garbage Island drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Toxic Garbage Island by Gojira is 152 BPM and runs 4:06: 141 bars and 2,221 notes played on the kick, crash, ride, snare, hi-hat, tom 1 and tom 2.
The drum part is rated Extreme — one of the hardest parts here, best learned a section at a time.
It has 7 fills, its longest section is the Chorus riff (0:34) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Intro
- Pre-Verse
- Verse
- Chorus riff
- Verse 2
- (4/4 with long last quarter)
- Chorus
- Tremolo bridge
- Interlude
- Re-Intro
- Outro
How to play Toxic Garbage Island on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Toxic Garbage Island come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Tremolo bridge at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 152 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Toxic Garbage Island drum cover.
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