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Standing Sex · X-Japan

EXERCISE 20 OF 65
Join Part F to Part I (bars 26-28)
131 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKIFMO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Standing Sex on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and toms through bars 45-48, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-27 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED