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Myaku · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 15 OF 64
Run G1 · Part G (bars 9-28)
89 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART N
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AG
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesYGNAGQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Myaku on drums

162 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, toms through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-57, hi-hat through bars 58-82 and snare through bars 83-99, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-73 and 113-119, and 2 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Myaku -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Myaku?

185 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 Myaku hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Myaku?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED