山椒魚 · Melancholic Sharaku

184 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 26-32, and 9 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
山椒魚 · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 73, 88 and 11 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 12 sections: 144 keep time, 17 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-166.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBWKTE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 山椒魚?

200 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 山椒魚 hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 山椒魚?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 73, 88 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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