Nagai Ai · B'Z

123 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-44 and 64-66, and 6 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
NAGAI AI · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 42 and 15 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-72.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
11 groovesQKS1FAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nagai Ai?

114 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 Nagai Ai hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 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 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 Nagai Ai?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 42 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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