Sonzai Riyuu 「存在理由」 · plastic tree

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-19 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SONZAI RIYUU 「存在理由」 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 48 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-47.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesBEQSM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sonzai Riyuu 「存在理由」?

120 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 Sonzai Riyuu 「存在理由」 hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sonzai Riyuu 「存在理由」?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 48 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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