Orgasm · X JAPAN

126 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 34-40, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 197 BPM
ORGASM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 25, 33, 42 and 22 more.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 197 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

126 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART A
PART E
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLAEHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orgasm?

197 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 Orgasm hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Orgasm?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 25, 33, 42 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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