Ho-Kago Tea Time · K-On!!

174 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 20-22 and 24-25, and 3 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
HO-KAGO TEA TIME · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 19, 27, 28 and 38 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 44 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART F
PART Q
PART F
PART B
PART AD
PART L
OUTRO
9 groovesSFBNAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ho-Kago Tea Time?

147 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 Ho-Kago Tea Time hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Ho-Kago Tea Time?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 19, 27, 28 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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