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Kagero - 陽炎 · Sakanaction

EXERCISE 15 OF 39
Groove K -- Part K
113 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
PART B
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJBKS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kagero - 陽炎 on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-73, snare through bars 74-76 and toms through bars 77-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28, 30-32 and 34-40, and 7 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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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---|
Kagero - 陽炎 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 41 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 65-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-132 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kagero - 陽炎?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Kagero - 陽炎 hard to play on drums?

62 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?

147 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kagero - 陽炎?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED