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Arkadia · Babymetal

EXERCISE 1 OF 127
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART X
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCGAIBEBY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 38
LAND · 38
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arkadia on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Arkadia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-210 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-68 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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