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Plastic Love · Mariya Takeuchi

Plastic Love · Mariya Takeuchi
EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove G -- Verse
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0 / 42 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plastic Love on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-59, hi-hat through bars 60-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-155.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-xx-x-xx-------|
HF |---------------x|
Plastic Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-84 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-53 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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