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Akudama · Alpha Wolf

Akudama · Alpha Wolf
EXERCISE 10 OF 69
Groove F
34 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART J
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AG
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AC
CHORUS 4
12 groovesEACJAGA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akudama on drums

108 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

52 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
108
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|
Akudama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 15 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- E, AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 6-80 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AG and Part AK -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Akudama?

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 Akudama hard to play on drums?

52 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Akudama?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 15 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED