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Hisato newsong 2026 · Cloud 9

EXERCISE 6 OF 83
Groove R -- Part R
21 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART C
CHORUS
PART Q
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART R
PART AV
PART R
PART BI
CHORUS 4
10 groovesJAVXRAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hisato newsong 2026 on drums

138 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-38, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 33, and 10 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |------o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Hisato newsong 2026 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-40 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AG -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hisato newsong 2026?

200 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 Hisato newsong 2026 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hisato newsong 2026?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED