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

Red Samurai · Darko US, Kyle Hebert, Dan Tucker, Clay White, Thomas Barber, Kyle Hebert, Dan Tucker, Clay White, Hunter McBride, Mihai Pavel
EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Fill at bar 45 (a small one)
59 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Samurai on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-70, silence through bars 71-95, snare through bars 96-104, silence through bars 105-108 and snare through bars 109-115, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Red Samurai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, W -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-56 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-96 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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