飛行艇 (Hikoutei) · King Gnu

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
飛行艇 (HIKOUTEI) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 12 sections: 43 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
5 groovesCAJS9S11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 飛行艇 (Hikoutei)?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 飛行艇 (Hikoutei) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 飛行艇 (Hikoutei)?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

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