N.G.S. · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

109 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 23-27 and 55-59, and 3 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
N.G.S. · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 13, 28, 29, 45, 52 and 11 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 19 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-107.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesENIAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is N.G.S.?

155 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 N.G.S. hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 N.G.S.?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 13, 28, 29, 45, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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