Tokyo Illusion · Aucifer

176 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-34, 71-77 and 132-138 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
TOKYO ILLUSION · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 25, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 35 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 16 sections: 108 keep time, 41 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

PART B
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART AC
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART AR
PART BA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesPLBAJAR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Illusion?

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

Is Tokyo Illusion hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Tokyo Illusion?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 25, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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