Deja Vu · Initial D

163 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-24 and 27, and 31 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DEJA VU · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 59, 67, 75 and 6 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 135 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-163.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJIBRW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deja Vu?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Deja Vu hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Deja Vu?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 59, 67, 75 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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