Suna No Hanabira · B'Z

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13-18 and 21, and 13 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUNA NO HANABIRA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 23, 29, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-67.

CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDANCS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suna No Hanabira?

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 Suna No Hanabira hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Suna No Hanabira?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 23, 29, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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