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Tokyo Reggie · Masayoshi Takanaka

EXERCISE 10 OF 70
Groove J -- Part J
57 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J
PART A
PART G
PART J
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokyo Reggie on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-53, ride through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Tokyo Reggie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- G, X -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-51 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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