キング · THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT, thee michelle gun elephant, チバユウスケ

146 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-56, 65-68 and 93-98, and 1 more place -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
キング · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 27, 28, 36 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 19 sections: 111 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-122.

PART G
PART G
PART K
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNBGDK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is キング?

180 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 キング hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in キング?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 27, 28, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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