Hikizuru Beat · MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS

198 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 19-22 and 27-30, and 9 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
HIKIZURU BEAT · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 40, 42, 50 and 14 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 15 sections: 141 keep time, 21 are fills, 21 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-152.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART X
PART AC
PART X
CHORUS 2
13 groovesBOXCA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hikizuru Beat?

192 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 Hikizuru Beat hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hikizuru Beat?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 40, 42, 50 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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