dedede · Haku.

123 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-40, 42-56 and 66-88, and 1 more place -- 75.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DEDEDE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 57, 89, 122 and 123.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 122-123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 4 sections: 113 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is dedede?

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 dedede hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in dedede?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 57, 89, 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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