Kodou · Dir En Grey

107 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 44-58 and 62, and 3 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
KODOU · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 29, 31, 33, 37, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-59.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEVPN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kodou?

119 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 Kodou hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Kodou?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 29, 31, 33, 37, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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