Satsugai · Detroit Metal City

175 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-63, 103-117 and 143-157 -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
SATSUGAI · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 78 and 7 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 12 sections: 138 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-68.

PART B
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBEFO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satsugai?

210 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 Satsugai hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Satsugai?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 78 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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