Tokyo Reggie · Masayoshi Takanaka

138 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13 and 17, and 6 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TOKYO REGGIE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 24, 26, 27, 28, 60 and 5 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 17 sections: 99 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

PART A
PART G
PART U
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AC
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART AC
10 groovesXGACUAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Reggie?

125 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 Reggie hard to play on drums?

57 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Reggie?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 24, 26, 27, 28, 60 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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