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Deja Vu · Initial D

Deja Vu · Initial D
EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Groove D
119 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deja Vu on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-163.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
T2 |x---x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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