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Deja-Vu · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART AG
PART Y
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMYGNAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deja-Vu on drums

224 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59 and ride through bars 60-85, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 60-61, and 11 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |----x---x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Deja-Vu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 85, 93, 125, 157, 165 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- M, Y -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deja-Vu?

140 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 85, 93, 125, 157, 165 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED