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Comme Un Boomerang · Serge Gainsbourg

Comme Un Boomerang · Serge Gainsbourg
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 18 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comme Un Boomerang on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69 and ride through bars 70-84.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
HF |----x-------x---|
Comme Un Boomerang -- 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 69, 73, 77 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED