Senkou 閃光 · Alexandros

224 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-30 and 62, and 8 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 208 BPM
SENKOU 閃光 · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 25, 31, 63 and 38 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 21 sections: 142 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-46.

CHORUS
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AH
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AH
CHORUS 6
11 groovesJAHNDT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Senkou 閃光?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Senkou 閃光 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Senkou 閃光?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 25, 31, 63 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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