ほんをよむ (Reading a Book) · Hyakkei (百景)

109 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 72-74, 76 and 78-82, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ほんをよむ (READING A BOOK) · BARS 72-73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, 29 and 23 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 29 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-86.

COUNT-IN
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQAKIS1E+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ほんをよむ (Reading a Book)?

118 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 ほんをよむ (Reading a Book) hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 ほんをよむ (Reading a Book)?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, 29 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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