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K-ON! · Don't say lazy

K-ON! · Don't say lazy
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play K-ON! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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