Kishi Kaisen (起死開戦) · millsage

149 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 65-66 and 80-81, and 2 more places -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
KISHI KAISEN (起死開戦) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 38 and 55 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 20 sections: 50 keep time, 61 are fills, 17 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-9.

PART J
PART T
PART O
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQBOCEJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kishi Kaisen (起死開戦)?

170 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 Kishi Kaisen (起死開戦) hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Kishi Kaisen (起死開戦)?

30 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 38 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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