Standing Sex · X-Japan

186 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 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
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 53-58 and 61-67, and 8 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
STANDING SEX · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 12, 20, 28 and 31 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 15 sections: 132 keep time, 37 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-102.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKIFMO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Standing Sex?

175 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 Standing Sex hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Standing Sex?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 12, 20, 28 and 31 more.

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