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Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016) · Babymetal

EXERCISE 13 OF 93
Groove F -- Part F
111 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART F
PART H
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART S20
PART F
CHORUS 6
10 groovesTWQS20F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016) on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
11:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, snare through bars 20-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-80, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
Akatsuki Live at Wembley Arena (2016) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, W -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-61 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-23 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-53 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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