kuroi namida · Nana

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 24-29 and 48, and 6 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
KUROI NAMIDA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-29.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIFBS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kuroi namida?

78 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 kuroi namida hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 kuroi namida?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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