美しきもの2 · sound horizon

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-11 and 13-15, and 26 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
美しきもの2 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 36 and 18 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 91 keep time, 24 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-87.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS6XS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 美しきもの2?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 美しきもの2 hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 美しきもの2?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 36 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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