Kodoku · Death Note

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-49, 51 and 53, and 1 more place -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
KODOKU · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 50, 52 and 54.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-31.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOGBTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kodoku?

77 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 Kodoku hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 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 Kodoku?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 50, 52 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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