Kotodama · Kagrra,

234 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-42, 47-49 and 63-66, and 9 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
KOTODAMA · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 50, 74, 118, 128 and 2 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 31 sections: 159 keep time, 8 are fills, 14 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 187-218.

PART E
PART O
CHORUS 5
PART U
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesKEOIU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kotodama?

220 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 Kotodama hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 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 Kotodama?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 50, 74, 118, 128 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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