Go Go Maniac · K-On!!

254 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 49-54, and 10 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
GO GO MANIAC · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 23, 24 and 42 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 25 sections: 144 keep time, 48 are fills and 29 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-46.

PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
17 groovesVHBDAKP+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go Go Maniac?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Go Go Maniac hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 29 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 Go Go Maniac?

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 23, 24 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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