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Onyx · Senri Kawaguchi

Onyx · Senri Kawaguchi
EXERCISE 4 OF 65
Groove P -- Part P
27 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART P, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
PART U
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART O
8 groovesBJPUO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Onyx on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-65 and ride through bars 66-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-x-----x-----------|
Onyx -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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