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Elle M'a Dit · Cali

Elle M'a Dit · Cali
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elle M'a Dit on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-61, silence through bars 62-65 and snare through bars 66-116.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Elle M'a Dit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 7-19 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-57 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-116 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED