Arkadia · Babymetal

227 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 9:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-19 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
ARKADIA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

38 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 13, 20, 21, 29, 37 and 63 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

34 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 22 sections: 113 keep time, 69 are fills, 15 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-56.

CHORUS
PART G
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART BE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCGAIBEBY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arkadia?

101 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Arkadia hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 24 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 Arkadia?

38 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 13, 20, 21, 29, 37 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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