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Mikasa · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove I -- Outro 2
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PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLBIPS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mikasa on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-24, toms through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18-19, and 8 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x---x---x-|
Mikasa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mikasa?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mikasa hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 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 Mikasa?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED