Number One · Shiro Sagisu

132 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 47-60 and 109-122 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 141 BPM
NUMBER ONE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 15, 20, 28, 36, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-60.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART T
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGEIMT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Number One?

141 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 Number One hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Number One?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 15, 20, 28, 36, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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