shimokitazawa · Ailiph Doepa

210 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 12 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SHIMOKITAZAWA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48 and 21 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 33 sections: 129 keep time, 27 are fills, 13 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-38.

PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AX
BREAK 8
30 groovesJOCUS30+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is shimokitazawa?

170 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 shimokitazawa hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 shimokitazawa?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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