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

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Verse
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VERSE
PART H
PART M
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesCANMHV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-60, snare through bars 61-65, hi-hat through bars 66-104, snare through bars 105-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-112, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
だめにんげんだ! / Dame Ningen Da! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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