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ほんをよむ (Reading a Book) · Hyakkei (百景)

EXERCISE 11 OF 58
Groove G
35 / 109 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
PART I
PART E
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ほんをよむ (Reading a Book) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, ride through bars 30-34, hi-hat through bars 35-55, ride through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    72               73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------------o-|------o---o-----|
SD |x-------------x-|------x---x-----|
BD |x-------------x-|------x---x-----|
HF |--x-------------|x-------x---x---|
ほんをよむ (Reading a Book) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AK, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-30 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-51 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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