Senbonzakura · WagakkiBand

168 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 26-28, and 8 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
SENBONZAKURA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 24 and 54 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 14 sections: 65 keep time, 60 are fills, 8 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFWMAS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Senbonzakura?

153 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 Senbonzakura hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Senbonzakura?

16 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 24 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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