JOHNNY HALLYDAY · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Allumer Le Feu

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 8 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 147 BPM
ALLUMER LE FEU · BAR 19

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 43 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 110 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 110, 129 and 147 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

PRACTISE THIS BEAT →

Questions

What drum beat does Allumer Le Feu use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 147 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 59.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 18-24, 26-32, 34-40 and 42-48, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Allumer Le Feu hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED