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Rasetsukoku (2011) · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 12 OF 42
Groove G
138 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
PART N
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDFNBU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rasetsukoku (2011) on drums

209 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-84, ride through bars 85-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-114, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 30-36 and 54-60, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rasetsukoku (2011) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 44, 48, 77 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-26 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rasetsukoku (2011)?

198 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 Rasetsukoku (2011) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Rasetsukoku (2011)?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 44, 48, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED