Big In Japan · Guano Apes

81 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

122 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

2:39

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-81.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16 and 33-40 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T1 |-------x--------|-------x--------|
T2 |---------x------|---------x------|
FT |xx-x------xx--xx|xx--------xx----|

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 52, 64 and 80.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, O -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.