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We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani) · One Piece

EXERCISE 16 OF 62
2-bar fill at bar 13
106 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJTREK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani) on drums

160 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-51, ride through bars 52-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-69, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 21 more places -- 26.4% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani) -- 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 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J, T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 6-140 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani)?

157 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 We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani) hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 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 We Are (Hiroshi Kitadani)?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED