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Ces Idées La · Louis Bertignac

Ces Idées La · Louis Bertignac
EXERCISE 8 OF 20
Groove G
49 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAS2JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ces Idées La on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, silence through bars 49-56, ride through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-64 and ride through bars 65-70.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ces Idées La -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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, D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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