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「G.」 · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 21 OF 39
Groove P
198 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIMRC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 「G.」 on drums

226 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, toms through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-25, 35-41 and 43, and 13 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
「G.」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 226.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-148 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-54 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-138 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 「G.」?

210 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 「G.」 hard to play on drums?

54 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?

226 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 「G.」?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 226.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED