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Tobira · B'Z

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS5S3S7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tobira on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-19, ride through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-29, silence through bars 30-49 and ride through bars 50-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 20-22, and 7 more places -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 23, 27, 28, 53, 57 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-54 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tobira?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Tobira hard to play on drums?

53 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tobira?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 23, 27, 28, 53, 57 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED