Désolé · Gorillaz

199 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 22 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
DÉSOLÉ · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 14, 26, 58, 90, 137 and 5 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 17 sections: 137 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK
PART I
PART G
BREAK 3
9 groovesBGS15S8I+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Désolé?

138 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 Désolé hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Désolé?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 14, 26, 58, 90, 137 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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