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Kodoku · Death Note

Kodoku · Death Note
EXERCISE 3 OF 24
Groove B -- Part B
28 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOGBTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kodoku on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56 and ride through bars 57-61.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-----x-|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-------x-----|
Kodoku -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- O, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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