Haruka Kanata · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

171 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14-15 and 18, and 8 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
HARUKA KANATA · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 26 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 25 sections: 105 keep time, 32 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-156.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AD
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEMHJAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Haruka Kanata?

175 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 Haruka Kanata hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 21 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 Haruka Kanata?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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