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ポラリス (POLARIS) · Aooo

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove AB -- Part AB
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0 / 74 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB, PART AO
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART U
PART AB
PART AG
PART U
PART AO
PART AB
OUTRO
13 groovesCABUAGAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ポラリス (POLARIS) on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-51, toms through bars 52-58, hi-hat through bars 59-80, snare through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-158.

The beat

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.

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HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
ポラリス (POLARIS) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-29 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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