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Suna No Hanabira · B'Z

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suna No Hanabira on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-67, silence through bars 68-72, toms through bars 73-75, ride through bars 76-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-99.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Suna No Hanabira -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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