Rōnin · Ibaraki

330 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 14:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
330
LENGTH
14:40
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-57, 59-60 and 62-65, and 9 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
RŌNIN · BAR 51
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

39 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 82 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

35 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

330 bars across 25 sections: 138 keep time, 88 are fills, 5 are stops and 68 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-60.

CHORUS 2
PART BH
BREAK
PART CI
PART CX
18 groovesS18AEALAHBH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rōnin?

90 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 Rōnin hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

330 bars, about 14:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 110 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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 Rōnin?

39 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 82 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 330 BARS ANALYSED
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