A Chaque Seconde · AqME

97 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 33-44 and 61-64 -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
A CHAQUE SECONDE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART C
VERSE 3
OUTRO
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Chaque Seconde?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Chaque Seconde hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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