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Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka · Kiren Seals

EXERCISE 13 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 15-17)
67 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Demon Slayer - Zankyou Sanka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AH -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-83 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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