Sadistic Desire · X Japan

272 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 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
272
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 70-75 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 21.7% 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 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 50, 98, 141, 142 and 24 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 141-143 · LANDS ON BAR 144 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

272 bars across 19 sections: 207 keep time, 30 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-87.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesXFSAZAF+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?

68 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?

272 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 50, 98, 141, 142 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED
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