Des fleurs pour Salinger · Indochine

206 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 60-62 and 65-72, and 13 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DES FLEURS POUR SALINGER · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 48, 64 and 76.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 17 sections: 177 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-111.

PART A
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
10 groovesGKAIH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Des fleurs pour Salinger?

120 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 Des fleurs pour Salinger hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Des fleurs pour Salinger?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 48, 64 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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