KICKBACK · Kenshi Yonezu

162 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29, and 7 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
KICKBACK · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 39, 40, 72, 87 and 6 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 131-134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
VERSE
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART S8
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesES8SUA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is KICKBACK?

205 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 KICKBACK hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 KICKBACK?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 39, 40, 72, 87 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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