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Mabushii Sign · B'Z

EXERCISE 10 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
95 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 99 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
VERSE
BREAK
VERSE 2
BREAK 2
VERSE 3
5 groovesCBS6S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mabushii Sign on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 2-83, silence through bars 84-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-37, 40-83 and 88-98 -- 93.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-84 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Mabushii Sign?

107 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 Mabushii Sign hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Mabushii Sign?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED