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A Chaque Seconde · AqME

EXERCISE 11 OF 16
Join Part C to Chorus 3 (bars 59-61)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
OUTRO
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Chaque Seconde on drums

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

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-80 and ride through bars 81-97.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-xx--|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x--x--|
A Chaque Seconde -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-56 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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