Kurenai · X JAPAN

165 bars, 9:26, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
9:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 27 and 50, and 17 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
KURENAI · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 66 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 72 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-62.

PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGIENS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kurenai?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Kurenai hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 9:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 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 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 Kurenai?

20 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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