Hunting Soul (Dan Da Dan) · Seiichi Nagai

168 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
HUNTING SOUL (DAN DA DAN) · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 46 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 18-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 18 sections: 76 keep time, 52 are fills, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART P
PART AC
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMPYACS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hunting Soul (Dan Da Dan)?

174 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 Hunting Soul (Dan Da Dan) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Hunting Soul (Dan Da Dan)?

18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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