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Tokimeki About You · Hanabie

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLTDACS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokimeki About You on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-33 and snare through bars 34-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-21, 35-40 and 58-63, and 2 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x-----x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x---------|x--x--xx--x--x--|
Tokimeki About You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 22 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- L, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-23 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-66 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tokimeki About You?

120 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 Tokimeki About You hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Tokimeki About You?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED