Waza

Song Information

Waza's jacket.

Waza's pop'n music banner.

Artist: Jimmy Weckl
Composition/Arrangement/Other Instruments: Jimmy Weckl
Tenor Saxophone: Vap Ueko
BPM: 117 (GF/DM), 130 (pop'n music)
Length: 1:31
Genre: crossover (クロスオーバー)
pop'n music Character: FOXY [10-2P]
pop'n music Background: Joy! (pop'n music 4)
Movie: Hitoshi NAKAMURA
First Music Game Appearance: drummania
Other Music Game Appearances:

pop'n music 10 (ee'MALL 2nd avenue)

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

According to Jimmy Weckl, Waza is part of a trilogy of songs in the order of Waza, CENTAUR, and Herring roe.
A re-arranged version of Waza by あさき, titled Waza Anniversary Edition, appears in GITADORA GALAXY WAVE.

Trivia

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In the early drummania games, Waza's title was capitalized as WAZA.
In drummania, Waza's genre was FUSION.
In the original drummania, Waza had a different video, which showed a drummer with sunglasses instead of the chess pieces shown on the later video.
Despite that Waza actually runs at 130 BPM, Waza's BPM has always been incorrectly shown in the DrumMania series, displayed as 140 until drummania 3rdMIX, and as 117 from drummania 4thMIX onwards.
Waza, Across the nightmare, Depend on me, and JET WORLD are the only four songs to have been in every DrumMania arcade installment until V8.
Waza was added to pop'n music 10 on December 17th, 2003 via ee'MALL 2nd avenue.
Waza's ADVANCED and EXTREME charts were moved down to BASIC and ADVANCED respectively in DrumMania V4 Яock×Rock.
- Also in DrumMania V4 Яock×Rock, Waza received a brand-new EXTREME chart, starting at Extra Level 12 by clearing Timepiece phase II as LEGEND STAGE. This chart was automatically made available in DrumMania V5 Rock to Infinity.
  - Incidentally, Jimmy Weckl wrote on his liner notes for Waza that he originally wanted to do a harder chart for Waza.
Before pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE, Waza's songwheel genre was Waza.
Waza has never been on a CS pop'n music release.

Music Comment

Untranslated.

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Character Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania difficulty from the original games to GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX rated from 1 to 10, and 1 to 99 from GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX onwards.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from Pop'n Music Fever and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

Original Series

Old Charts

Game	Drum			Guitar			Bass			Open
Game	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	-	516	602	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
dm→dm3	-	8	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
dm4→dm5	-	88	93	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
dm6	-	↓52	↓69	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
dm7→DM V3	-	↓46	↓59	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
dm CS	-	8	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

New Charts

Game	Drum			Guitar			Bass			Open
Game	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	516	602	666	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DM V4→V8	46	59	68	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

pop'n music

Game	Normal Mode				Battle Mode
Game	5-Buttons	NORMAL	HYPER	EX	NORMAL	HYPER
Notecounts	276	275	495	674	271	466
pop'n music 10→13 カーニバル (via ee'MALL)	14	16	27	36	13	23
pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE→20 fantasia	14	16	27	36	13	23
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present	-	22	33	42	13	23