Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016) · Babymetal

206 bars, 11:46, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
11:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-50, 61-63 and 67-69, and 10 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AKATSUKI LIVE AT WEMBLEY ARENA (2016) · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22 and 46 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 25 sections: 101 keep time, 52 are fills, 17 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-79.

PART H
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S20
10 groovesTWQS20F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016)?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016) hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 11:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 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 Live at Wembley Arena (2016)?

25 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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