Tokyo Devil · B'Z

105 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-31, 33-46 and 49-64, and 2 more places -- 86.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
TOKYO DEVIL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-47.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBS1S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Devil?

127 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 Tokyo Devil hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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