Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet · kessoku band

177 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 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 up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 36-41 and 72-78, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 193 BPM
GUITAR, LONELINESS AND BLUE PLANET · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 42, 43, 44 and 28 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 25 sections: 95 keep time, 34 are fills, 9 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-18.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
PART O
14 groovesHOBEJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet?

193 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 Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet?

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 19, 42, 43, 44 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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