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Syncopation · Babymetal

EXERCISE 10 OF 70
Groove L -- Part L
85 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART V
PART L
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART BC
CHORUS 3
13 groovesAHHVBCQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Syncopation on drums

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-47, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-59, 62-67 and 114-119, and 5 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Syncopation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AH, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 10-24 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-28 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-35 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Syncopation?

200 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 Syncopation hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Syncopation?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED