青春のアクアブルー · Try VII

169 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22-24 and 36-42, and 5 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
青春のアクアブルー · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 28 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 34 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART V
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDUVF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 青春のアクアブルー?

178 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 青春のアクアブルー hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 青春のアクアブルー?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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