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Gekka No Yasoukyoku · Malice Mizer

EXERCISE 7 OF 41
Join Break to Part D (bars 3-5)
61 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART D
BREAK
PART D
PART H
PART J
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 2
12 groovesNHDRQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gekka No Yasoukyoku on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, 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
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-63, ride through bars 64-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-60, and 5 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gekka No Yasoukyoku -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 61, 86, 87, 104 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-28 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gekka No Yasoukyoku?

144 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 Gekka No Yasoukyoku 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Gekka No Yasoukyoku?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 61, 86, 87, 104 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED