ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kirisute Gomen on drums

261 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 261
LENGTH: 8:42
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-62 and ride through bars 63-74, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-36, 46-62 and 84-91, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |---x--x--x--------x--------x--x--x--------x-----|------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|

Kirisute Gomen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 28, 45, 83, 111, 118, 119 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 25-76 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 80-105 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part L and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Kirisute Gomen?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kirisute Gomen hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kirisute Gomen?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 28, 45, 83, 111, 118, 119 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED