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謳「Uta」 · Imperial Circus Dead Decadence

EXERCISE 1 OF 134
Groove G -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART S24
PART S29
OUTRO 2
17 groovesGTS29S24BC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 34
LAND · 34
RUN · 6
JOIN · 21
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 謳「Uta」 on drums

422 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 8:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
422
LENGTH
8:14
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, toms through bars 28-38, hi-hat through bars 39-62 and ride through bars 63-86, and 37 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-27 and 47-53, and 10 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---xx--x---|
謳「Uta」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

34 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 67 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 99 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S7 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-67 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 謳「Uta」?

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

Is 謳「Uta」 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

422 bars, about 8:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 謳「Uta」?

34 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 422 BARS ANALYSED