'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」 · Babymetal

269 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-42, 50-51 and 53-56, and 23 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
'AWADAMA FEVER' 「あわだまフィーバー」 · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 36, 52, 71, 72, 73 and 29 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 71-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

269 bars across 26 sections: 194 keep time, 35 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-35.

PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 6
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGBAAAKH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 36, 52, 71, 72, 73 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 269 BARS ANALYSED
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