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Cagayake Girls · K-On!!

EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove D -- Part D
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PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART L
PART D
PART S
PART W
PART E
PART AC
PART AH
PART AK
PART AT
OUTRO 2
14 groovesKDSWAK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 13
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cagayake Girls on drums

174 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-67, toms through bars 68-71, hi-hat through bars 72-137, toms through bars 138-139 and hi-hat through bars 140-163, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 14 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-o-x-g-|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Cagayake Girls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 22, 38, 47 and 32 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-77 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cagayake Girls?

170 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 Cagayake Girls hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cagayake Girls?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 22, 38, 47 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED