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DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert · PiXXiE

EXERCISE 30 OF 82
Fill at bar 60 (a small one)
50 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART I
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AH
PART S20
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesLIAOS1S20+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 6
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-43, silence through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-67, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 33 and 35, and 8 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------------|
DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 21, 26, 42, 60, 63 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-57 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 DEJAYOU | Live at PiXXiE Tales Concert?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 21, 26, 42, 60, 63 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED