Asterisk (Bleach OP) · Orange Range

47 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 1:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 31-37 and 39-45 -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ASTERISK (BLEACH OP) · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 17, 38 and 46.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 5 sections: 30 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-45.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Asterisk (Bleach OP)?

124 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 Asterisk (Bleach OP) 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Asterisk (Bleach OP)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 17, 38 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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