Tenshi Ni Fureta Yo · K-On!!

132 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

117 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

132

LENGTH

4:31

DIFFICULTY

53/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, ride through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-99 and ride through bars 100-106, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22, and 3 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x---|------------x---|
T1 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-----x---------|x-----x---------|

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 21, 29, 33 and 30 more.

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 3-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 6-31 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 44-93 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.