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Akatsuki (True 6 string version) · Babymetal

EXERCISE 8 OF 84
Groove G -- Part G
91 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART S1
PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akatsuki (True 6 string version) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, snare through bars 41-47, hi-hat through bars 48-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 20 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 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
Akatsuki (True 6 string version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- P, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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