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Bubble / あぶく · Yorushika

EXERCISE 16 OF 44
Run H1 · Part H (bars 38-53)
114 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART S3
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART H
9 groovesBHMS3S11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bubble / あぶく on drums

158 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37, ride through bars 38-53 and silence through bars 54-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-28, and 7 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-x-x-o-x-o-o-|x-x-o-o-x-x-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|x-x-------x-----|
Bubble / あぶく -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 37, 41, 45 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-46 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-78 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bubble / あぶく?

164 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 Bubble / あぶく 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bubble / あぶく?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 37, 41, 45 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED