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ROKI · MikitoP (feat. Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len)

ROKI · MikitoP (feat. Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len)
EXERCISE 13 OF 60
Groove I
72 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART S
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesDHXSAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ROKI on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-30 and silence through bars 31-37, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8 and 22-24, and 8 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, X -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-25 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-47 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-80 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part AC -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ROKI?

150 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 ROKI hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 ROKI?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED