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Akai Kawa · B'Z

EXERCISE 27 OF 52
Groove W
84 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSNRS5AEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akai Kawa on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-73, ride through bars 74-81, toms through bars 82-85 and silence through bars 86-93, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 44, and 11 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Akai Kawa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- S, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part N -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Akai Kawa?

115 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 Akai Kawa hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Akai Kawa?

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED