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Akatsuki · Babymetal

EXERCISE 14 OF 107
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 26-33)
92 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AM
PART AA
OUTRO
14 groovesTHAKS1AM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akatsuki on drums

227 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-27, hi-hat through bars 28-41, toms through bars 42-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-51, toms through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-58, 60-62 and 64-66, and 11 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
Akatsuki -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 70 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Akatsuki?

170 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 Akatsuki hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Akatsuki?

28 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED