Sadistic Desire · X JAPAN

245 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 69-74 and 76-82, and 7 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SADISTIC DESIRE · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 24 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 44-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 140-142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 19 sections: 182 keep time, 30 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-86.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 3
11 groovesXFSAFH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sadistic Desire?

190 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 Sadistic Desire hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Sadistic Desire?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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