Ai No Prisoner · B'Z

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 8 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
AI NO PRISONER · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 26, 27, 39 and 10 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJLAEB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ai No Prisoner?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ai No Prisoner hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 Ai No Prisoner?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 26, 27, 39 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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