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碧いif (What if) · Togenashi Togeari

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART X
PART AB
PART V
PART S
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDVABANI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 碧いif (What if) on drums

118 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-70 and snare through bars 71-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25 and 35, and 5 more places -- 12.8% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
碧いif (What if) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- D, V -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 碧いif (What if)?

182 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 碧いif (What if) hard to play on drums?

61 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 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, 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 碧いif (What if)?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED