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Tokyo Illusion · Aucifer

Tokyo Illusion · Aucifer
EXERCISE 5 OF 89
Groove C
58 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokyo Illusion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-51, snare through bars 52-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65, toms through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-94, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-----x---x-----|
Tokyo Illusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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