Japanese Denim · Daniel Caesar

45 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 4:21 of playing on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 62 BPM
JAPANESE DENIM · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 2 sections: 30 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Japanese Denim?

62 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Japanese Denim hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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