Comme Un Boomerang · Serge Gainsbourg

84 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-11, 14-19 and 22-27, and 5 more places -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
COMME UN BOOMERANG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 73, 77 and 83.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-68.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comme Un Boomerang?

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 Comme Un Boomerang hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Comme Un Boomerang?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 73, 77 and 83.

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