Mukoku · My First Story

203 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 65, and 7 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
MUKOKU · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 34, 38, 45 and 58 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 26 sections: 71 keep time, 64 are fills, 14 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-44.

COUNT-IN
PART S
PART AG
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART S20
17 groovesCACAGAS20+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mukoku?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mukoku hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Mukoku?

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 34, 38, 45 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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