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Comme Une Baleine · Les Betteraves

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comme Une Baleine on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, silence through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, silence through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 13-16, and 7 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
FT |x---x---x---x---|
Comme Une Baleine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 66 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-58 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Comme Une Baleine?

118 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 Une Baleine hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Comme Une Baleine?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED