Into the Light 「光の中へ」 · Kessoku Band

199 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-17, 53-58 and 88-93 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
INTO THE LIGHT 「光の中へ」 · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 28, 36, 37, 38, 41 and 36 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 26 sections: 111 keep time, 44 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-18.

PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AR
PART Y
PART BH
18 groovesGSARPAE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into the Light 「光の中へ」?

191 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 Into the Light 「光の中へ」 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 27 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 Into the Light 「光の中へ」?

22 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 28, 36, 37, 38, 41 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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