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業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove AP -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART J
PART W
PART AK
CHORUS
PART AV
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART AV
12 groovesAPAVAKJB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, toms through bars 23-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-31, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 76-78, 80-82 and 84-86, and 5 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76               77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x-x-x-x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x--x-x--x--x-x|--x--x-x--------|
業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 67 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-36 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013)?

135 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 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013)?

15 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 67 more.

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