Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka · Kiren Seals

129 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 171 BPM
DEMON SLAYER - ZANKYOU SANKA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 48 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 23-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 54 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-76.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AR
OUTRO
7 groovesHKARAHU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka?

171 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 Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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