Ces Idées La · Louis Bertignac

70 bars, 4:11, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-6, and 18 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 67 BPM
CES IDÉES LA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 60 and 64.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 4 sections: 58 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAS2JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ces Idées La?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ces Idées La hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ces Idées La?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 60 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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