Those Who Fight (FFVII Remake Airbuster Ver.) · Nobuo Uematsu

303 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 7:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24-27 and 29, and 17 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
THOSE WHO FIGHT (FFVII REMAKE AIRBUSTER VER.) · BAR 157
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 40 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 31 sections: 199 keep time, 46 are fills, 20 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 172-201.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
18 groovesKGOAQY+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Those Who Fight (FFVII Remake Airbuster Ver.)?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Those Who Fight (FFVII Remake Airbuster Ver.) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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 Those Who Fight (FFVII Remake Airbuster Ver.)?

28 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED
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