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shimokitazawa · Ailiph Doepa

shimokitazawa · Ailiph Doepa
EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART AX
BREAK 8
30 groovesJOCUS30+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 24
LINK · 3
SECTION · 21
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play shimokitazawa on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-40, snare through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58, snare through bars 59-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-90, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x--x--x-|
shimokitazawa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-84 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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