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Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi · Belle For The Sky

Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi · Belle For The Sky
EXERCISE 26 OF 48
Join Part K to Part C (bars 65-67)
128 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART C
PART C
PART F
PART K
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFQCO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58, snare through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---------------|
BD |----x---x-------|
Eastern Beauty/ Nishikigoi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, C -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-104 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 101-131 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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