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Usseewa (うっせぇわ) · Ado

EXERCISE 9 OF 71
Groove E
78 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Z
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART U
PART Z
PART I
PART AF
CHORUS 4
PART U
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCUZAFI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Usseewa (うっせぇわ) on drums

149 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46, ride through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-53, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 35 and 39-41, and 13 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Usseewa (うっせぇわ) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 32, 33, 34 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-43 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Usseewa (うっせぇわ)?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Usseewa (うっせぇわ) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Usseewa (うっせぇわ)?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 32, 33, 34 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED