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Comment te dire adieu · Francoise Hardy

Comment te dire adieu · Francoise Hardy
EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Groove K
69 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comment te dire adieu on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-50, ride through bars 51-55, hi-hat through bars 56-60 and ride through bars 61-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-31, and 3 more places -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Comment te dire adieu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Comment te dire adieu?

125 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 Comment te dire adieu hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 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 Comment te dire adieu?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED