Ningen wo Kaburu (人間を被る) · Dir En Grey

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

115 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

100

LENGTH

3:28

DIFFICULTY

76/100

toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, toms through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and toms through bars 23-26, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-32, 66-67 and 83, and 2 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31                               32
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|X-----------x-------------------|
RD |----x---x-------x---x---x-------|----x---x-----------------------|
SD |------x-----x---x-----x-----x-x-|------x-----x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|
BD |x---x-----xx--x-----x-----xx----|x---x-----xx--x-------xx------x-|

15 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 53 more.

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part U and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.