Week End · X JAPAN

247 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29-33, and 27 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
WEEK END · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 48 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 16 sections: 148 keep time, 57 are fills, 15 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
7 groovesDPMAZS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Week End?

172 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 Week End hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Week End?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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