Onyx · Senri Kawaguchi

133 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
ONYX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 28 and 34 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 40 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

CHORUS
PART J
PART P
PART U
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART O
8 groovesBJPUO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Onyx?

126 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 Onyx hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Onyx?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 28 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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