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Hikizuru Beat · MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS

EXERCISE 10 OF 74
Run C1 · Part C (bars 15-30)
124 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hikizuru Beat on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26 and snare through bars 27-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-74 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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