Red Samurai · Darko US, Kyle Hebert, Dan Tucker, Clay White, Thomas Barber, Kyle Hebert, Dan Tucker, Clay White, Hunter McBride, Mihai Pavel

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 19 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RED SAMURAI · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 31 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 13 sections: 53 keep time, 11 are fills, 25 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART T
PART S10
PART W
OUTRO
11 groovesEIS1S10S7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Samurai?

120 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 Red Samurai hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Red Samurai?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 31 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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