Soranin · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

200 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 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
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-55, 71 and 89-103, and 1 more place -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
SORANIN · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 72, 84, 88, 104, 112 and 8 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 12 sections: 114 keep time, 14 are fills, 49 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFZKBV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soranin?

177 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 Soranin 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Soranin?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 72, 84, 88, 104, 112 and 8 more.

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