Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi · Belle For The Sky

225 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 40, and 35 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
EASTERN BEAUTY/ NISHIKIGOI · BAR 177
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 26, 34, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 12 sections: 155 keep time, 12 are fills, 43 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 194-223.

PART C
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFQCO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi hard to play on drums?

62 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 26, 34, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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