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Easy Fight Rambling · X JAPAN

EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
68 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART I
PART A
PART K
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AH
BREAK
7 groovesS11NOIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easy Fight Rambling on drums

242 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 222 BPM, 6:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-32, ride through bars 33-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-124, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 46-47, and 15 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x---x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Easy Fight Rambling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 64, 65, 66, 74 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-53 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 20-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-96 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Easy Fight Rambling?

222 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Easy Fight Rambling hard to play on drums?

45 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Easy Fight Rambling?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 64, 65, 66, 74 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED