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Hakanai Diamond · B'Z

EXERCISE 23 OF 34
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 86-88)
93 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEKS1CS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hakanai Diamond on drums

134 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-41, ride through bars 42-47, snare through bars 48-49 and ride through bars 50-55, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-32 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Hakanai Diamond -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 41, 48, 49, 56, 78 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-84 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-129 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hakanai Diamond?

155 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 Hakanai Diamond hard to play on drums?

62 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?

134 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hakanai Diamond?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 41, 48, 49, 56, 78 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED