Japan · Yot Club

113 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 9 more places -- 74.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 166 BPM
JAPAN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 5 sections: 105 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-48.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Japan?

166 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 Japan hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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