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KICKBACK · Kenshi Yonezu

EXERCISE 11 OF 49
Groove F
86 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KICKBACK on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, silence through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-89, silence through bars 90-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-162.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxxxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
KICKBACK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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