Akatsuki (True 6 string version) · Babymetal

227 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-58, 60-62 and 64-66, and 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
AKATSUKI (TRUE 6 STRING VERSION) · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 27, 29, 31, 33, 41, 43 and 48 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 20 sections: 106 keep time, 54 are fills, 17 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-71.

PART S1
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
8 groovesPUS1API+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Akatsuki (True 6 string version)?

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 (True 6 string version) hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 (True 6 string version)?

23 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 27, 29, 31, 33, 41, 43 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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