K-ON! · Don't say lazy

82 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 5 more places -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 181 BPM
K-ON! · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 37, 41, 57 and 1 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 3 sections: 59 keep time, 8 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-77.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is K-ON!?

181 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 K-ON! hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 K-ON!?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 37, 41, 57 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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