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Kotodama · Kagrra,

Kotodama · Kagrra,
EXERCISE 19 OF 51
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 41-43)
134 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kotodama on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-114, snare through bars 115-131, silence through bars 132-139 and hi-hat through bars 140-144, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Kotodama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-22 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 5 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-111 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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