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Tokyo Devil · B'Z

EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove B -- Verse
87 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS, CHORUS 3
VERSE
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBS1S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokyo Devil on drums

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

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 2-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-105.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xx--x--x-x--x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x---x-|
Tokyo Devil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-89 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED