ポラリス (POLARIS) · Aooo

158 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-89, 91-95 and 131-133, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
ポラリス (POLARIS) · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 41, 56, 57 and 19 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 19 sections: 103 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-22.

CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART U
PART AB
PART AG
PART U
PART AO
OUTRO
13 groovesCABUAGAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ポラリス (POLARIS)?

179 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ポラリス (POLARIS) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 ポラリス (POLARIS)?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 41, 56, 57 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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