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Asayake · Casiopea

EXERCISE 29 OF 79
2-bar fill at bar 44 and 1 more
75 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART W
PART AB
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPAPBABK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asayake on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45 and ride through bars 46-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 35-36 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- P, AP -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Asayake?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Asayake hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Asayake?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED