Inkya Impulse · Asobi Asobase

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

153

LENGTH

4:22

DIFFICULTY

66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 73-79 and 113-119, and 1 more place -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-|

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 28, 38, 45 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- M, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 1-14 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. Bars 54-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.