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恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover) · Maximum The Hormone

EXERCISE 19 OF 72
Groove M
141 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 3
9 groovesCLSJF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover) on drums

226 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 5:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-80, ride through bars 81-82, toms through bars 83-84, ride through bars 85-86 and toms through bars 87-88, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 11 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-100 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Verse 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover)?

173 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 恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 恋のメガラバ(Koi No Mega-Lover)?

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED