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Ah! Ça Ira! · Gojira

EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Groove L -- Part L
103 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
PART G
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKBGIS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ah! Ça Ira! on drums

116 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-35, snare through bars 36-43, ride through bars 44-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-89, 103 and 105-107, and 2 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
BD |--------------x-|
Ah! Ça Ira! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 35 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-95 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 90-105 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ah! Ça Ira!?

180 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 Ah! Ça Ira! hard to play on drums?

60 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ah! Ça Ira!?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED