Ninja · Europe

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9 and 13-14, and 15 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NINJA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 28, 34, 35, 36 and 16 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 95 keep time, 22 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesANGRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ninja?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ninja hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Ninja?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 28, 34, 35, 36 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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