Western Haikus · Title Fight

71 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-16 and 19, and 10 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WESTERN HAIKUS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52 and 4 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBMJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Western Haikus?

155 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 Western Haikus hard to play on drums?

51 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?

71 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Western Haikus?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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