Loop & Loop · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-67 and 88, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LOOP & LOOP · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 8 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-34.

PART A
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
PART S
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNAFIS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loop & Loop?

135 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 Loop & Loop hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Loop & Loop?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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