海へ / umihe · syh

86 bars, 4:36, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 65-71 and 73-79, and 1 more place -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
海へ / UMIHE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 32, 49, 50, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART F
PART J
10 groovesGJOCB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 海へ / umihe?

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

Is 海へ / umihe hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 海へ / umihe?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 32, 49, 50, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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