だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da! · Usushioshisuu

170 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-25 and 27, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
だめにんげんだ! / DAME NINGEN DA! · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 18, 26, 33, 34, 42 and 30 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 12 sections: 112 keep time, 38 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

VERSE
PART H
PART M
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesCANMHV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da!?

174 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 だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da! hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da!?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 18, 26, 33, 34, 42 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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