Tokyo Nights · Krokus

110 bars, 5:52, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-15 and 20, and 13 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TOKYO NIGHTS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45 and 4 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-85.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHLDGU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Nights?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tokyo Nights hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nights?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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