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Sorairo Days · 中川翔子 (Shoko Nakagawa)

Sorairo Days · 中川翔子 (Shoko Nakagawa)
EXERCISE 31 OF 70
2-bar fill at bar 50 and 2 more
109 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 4, CHORUS 5
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART AG
PART AJ
PART A
CHORUS 5
12 groovesCAMAGAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sorairo Days on drums

178 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-33 and snare through bars 34-35, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 37, and 18 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
Sorairo Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-77 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sorairo Days?

174 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 Sorairo Days hard to play on drums?

57 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sorairo Days?

16 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED