青道 · STANCE PUNKS

103 bars, 5:21, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 31-37 and 56-62, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
青道 · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 24, 26, 46, 47, 49 and 8 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-22.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART V
9 groovesHCIVQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 青道?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 青道 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 青道?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 24, 26, 46, 47, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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