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Tokyo Nights · Krokus

Tokyo Nights · Krokus
EXERCISE 8 OF 45
Groove D -- Part D
71 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokyo Nights on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-110.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |------o---x---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-xxxx--x---xx--|
Tokyo Nights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H, L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-61 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-86 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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