Plastic Love · Mariya Takeuchi

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 20 and 28, and 26 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
PLASTIC LOVE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 13, 29, 44, 45, 57, 60 and 14 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 11 sections: 117 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

PART E
CHORUS
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
PART H
OUTRO
VERSE 3
6 groovesGKFEH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plastic Love?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Plastic Love hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

155 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Plastic Love?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 13, 29, 44, 45, 57, 60 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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