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San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka · Plastic Tree

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCGS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-71, toms through bars 72-73, snare through bars 74-75, ride through bars 76-87 and snare through bars 88-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 36-43 and 88-102, and 1 more place -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 68, 69, 72, 73, 87 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 16-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-88 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka?

92 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 San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 San-Gatsu Itsu-Ka?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 68, 69, 72, 73, 87 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED