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Comment Te Dire · Kyo

EXERCISE 19 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
72 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 112 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesS7BIFMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comment Te Dire on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-53, snare through bars 54-56, hi-hat through bars 57-69 and silence through bars 70-109, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |xxxxx--xxxxxx--x|xxxxx--xxxxx-XxX|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---x---|
Comment Te Dire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-69 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-112 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Comment Te Dire?

108 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 hard to play on drums?

62 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED