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Nagai Ai · B'Z

EXERCISE 2 OF 59
Groove K -- Part K
28 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
11 groovesQKS1FAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nagai Ai on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63 and ride through bars 64-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |----x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Nagai Ai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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