「Fuyu no hanashi · Given

109 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 12-14 and 16-18, and 8 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
「FUYU NO HANASHI · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 35 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 41 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-34.

CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AK
OUTRO
8 groovesDAKZS6S7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 「Fuyu no hanashi?

135 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 「Fuyu no hanashi hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 「Fuyu no hanashi?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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