Elle M'a Dit · Cali

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 26-41 and 46-53, and 2 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ELLE M'A DIT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-116.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEGS1BS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elle M'a Dit?

130 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 Elle M'a Dit hard to play on drums?

41 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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