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Senbonzakura · WagakkiBand

Senbonzakura · WagakkiBand
EXERCISE 26 OF 59
Join Part M to Part W (bars 52-54)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Senbonzakura on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-77, hi-hat through bars 78-106 and silence through bars 107-108, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|
Senbonzakura -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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