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Japan · Yot Club
EXERCISE 3 OF 10
Groove C
85 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Japan on drums

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

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-56, hi-hat through bars 57-81, snare through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-113.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Japan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED