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Akumu No Rondo · Babymetal

EXERCISE 10 OF 60
3-bar fill at bar 18
37 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
11 groovesDNS13KA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akumu No Rondo on drums

127 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 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
6/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, silence through bars 39-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-75 and toms through bars 76-78, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 3 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---------------|------------|
RD |----------------|--------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|----x---x---|
BD |x-xx-xx-xxx-xxxx|-xx-xx-xx-x-|
Akumu No Rondo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-49 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-55 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-84 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part AI -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Akumu No Rondo?

170 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Akumu No Rondo hard to play on drums?

62 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Akumu No Rondo?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED