Big In Japan · Alphaville

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-57 and 59-90 -- 87.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BIG IN JAPAN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 3 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-90.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big In Japan?

97 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 Big In Japan hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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