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Orgasm · X JAPAN

EXERCISE 18 OF 56
Fill at bar 25 and 50 (a small one)
95 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orgasm on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-58, ride through bars 59-72, hi-hat through bars 73-74, snare through bars 75-76, hi-hat through bars 77-94 and ride through bars 95-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-67 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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