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Fuwa Fuwa Time · K-On!!

EXERCISE 31 OF 42
Groove W -- Part W
130 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART W
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART A
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBFAW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fuwa Fuwa Time on drums

173 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-113, kick and crashes through bars 114-116, silence through bars 117-122, ride through bars 123-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-141, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 30-31 and 34-40, and 8 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 41, 55, 63 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-18 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-106 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fuwa Fuwa Time?

180 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 Fuwa Fuwa Time hard to play on drums?

64 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?

173 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fuwa Fuwa Time?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 41, 55, 63 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED