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TAKARAJIMA · Lilisa, Otoha, Red Familiar

TAKARAJIMA · Lilisa, Otoha, Red Familiar
EXERCISE 1 OF 92
Groove AY -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TAKARAJIMA on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-45, silence through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-51, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    119
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
TAKARAJIMA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AY -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-46 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S11 and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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