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Dejavu · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 20 OF 54
Run H1 · Part H (bars 12-15)
119 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART V
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDNVHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dejavu on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-59 and ride through bars 60-67, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 16-18, and 11 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|----------------|
HH |------o-o-o-ooo-|o-o-ooo-o-ooooo-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x--xx-x-x--xx-|x-x--xx-x-xx-xx-|
Dejavu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 15 and 36 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-16 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 32-52 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dejavu?

150 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 Dejavu hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Dejavu?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 15 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED