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

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove G -- Chorus 3
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AG
PART AA
CHORUS 6
PART AK
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGBAAAKH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」 on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-70, toms through bars 71-74, snare through bars 75-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-80 and snare through bars 81-84, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
'Awadama Fever' 「あわだまフィーバー」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-77 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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