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Deja Vu · Gustavo Cerati

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove D -- Verse
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0 / 29 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesDBUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deja Vu on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-28 and 31-36, and 13 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Deja Vu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 29, 37, 45, 53, 59 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Deja Vu?

139 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 Deja Vu hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Deja Vu?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 29, 37, 45, 53, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED