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Kodou · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kodou on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, ride through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-68, ride through bars 69-75 and snare through bars 76-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-14 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-65 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-76 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-86 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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