TAKARAJIMA · Lilisa, Otoha, Red Familiar

157 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111-113, 115-120 and 137, and 5 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
TAKARAJIMA · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 50 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 18 sections: 77 keep time, 56 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-93.

PART Z
PART AD
PART C
PART AP
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAYCADDAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TAKARAJIMA?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 TAKARAJIMA 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 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 TAKARAJIMA?

27 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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