Dahlia · X JAPAN

336 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 7:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
336
LENGTH
7:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-106, 110-122 and 232-238, and 4 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DAHLIA · BAR 93
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

336 bars across 20 sections: 183 keep time, 90 are fills, 12 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 217-231.

PART M
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AW
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART S18
OUTRO
11 groovesAEAIYAWS18+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dahlia?

175 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 Dahlia hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

336 bars, about 7:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dahlia?

23 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 336 BARS ANALYSED
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