Kaiju No Hanauta (怪獣の花唄) · Vaundy

137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

137

LENGTH

3:39

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bars 2-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-78, hi-hat through bars 79-109, snare through bars 110-111, toms through bars 112-116 and snare through bars 117-126, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 38-40 and 58-60, and 9 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 32 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 2-34 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 34-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.