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Akuro No Oka (Live) · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 25 OF 34
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 75-128)
182 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesCFIOS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akuro No Oka (Live) on drums

215 bars, 11:26, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, silence through bars 28-33, hi-hat through bars 34-94, snare through bars 95-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-129, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 51-57 and 75-94, and 3 more places -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---xx--x-|
Akuro No Oka (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 50, 58, 95 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-61 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-97 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-134 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Akuro No Oka (Live)?

75 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 Akuro No Oka (Live) hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 11:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Akuro No Oka (Live)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 50, 58, 95 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED