八芒星ダンス, Octagram Dance · Ave Mujica

116 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 33-35 and 54-55, and 2 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 159 BPM
八芒星ダンス, OCTAGRAM DANCE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 43 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 36-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 29 keep time, 49 are fills, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AO
7 groovesFAOS1CV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 八芒星ダンス, Octagram Dance?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 八芒星ダンス, Octagram Dance hard to play on drums?

72 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?

116 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 八芒星ダンス, Octagram Dance?

12 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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