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Rewrite · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

EXERCISE 14 OF 63
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 12-14)
103 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDIVCM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rewrite on drums

167 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and ride through bars 57-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-12 and 14, and 10 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rewrite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-73 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-89 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rewrite?

180 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 Rewrite hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Rewrite?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED