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Deja Vu · Pitty

EXERCISE 11 OF 31
Groove G -- Part G
78 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deja Vu on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, snare through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-52, ride through bars 53-59 and snare through bars 60-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23 and 37-51 -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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 13 times: bars 24, 52, 58, 59, 60, 68 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-64 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-56 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 58-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Deja Vu?

92 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?

57 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?

99 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 13 times: bars 24, 52, 58, 59, 60, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED