KAGEROU蜉蝣 · BUCK-TICK

154 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 41-45 and 47-50, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
KAGEROU蜉蝣 · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 30, 38, 46 and 16 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 98-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 23 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-29.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 5
PART D
5 groovesEIKDUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is KAGEROU蜉蝣?

130 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 KAGEROU蜉蝣 hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 KAGEROU蜉蝣?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 30, 38, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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