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ヤミクロ · Lie And A Chameleon

ヤミクロ · Lie And A Chameleon
EXERCISE 20 OF 50
2-bar fill at bar 37
113 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART R
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesGSOVJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ヤミクロ on drums

143 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-121 and snare through bars 122-127, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 9 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
ヤミクロ -- 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 2, 3, 4, 14, 22, 37 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ヤミクロ?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ヤミクロ hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in ヤミクロ?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 14, 22, 37 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED