Fuji Speedway ‎ · Nick Kelsch

111 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 64 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 33 keep time, 70 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-30.

PART B
PART R
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesAMAFBRS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fuji Speedway ‎?

175 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 Fuji Speedway ‎ hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fuji Speedway ‎?

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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