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Into the Light 「光の中へ」 · Kessoku Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 117
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AL
PART AR
PART Y
PART BH
18 groovesGSARPAE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 20
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into the Light 「光の中へ」 on drums

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.

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
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60, ride through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-84, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x-----|
Into the Light 「光の中へ」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 94 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 -- G, S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-11 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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