Guren No Yumiya (Shingeki No Kyojin OP) · Linked Horizon

36 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19 and 21-25 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
GUREN NO YUMIYA (SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN OP) · BARS 21-22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 5 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 8 sections: 18 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-5.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesFLBRP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guren No Yumiya (Shingeki No Kyojin OP)?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Guren No Yumiya (Shingeki No Kyojin OP) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 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 Guren No Yumiya (Shingeki No Kyojin OP)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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