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Elle S'ennuie · Gerald De Palmas

Elle S'ennuie · Gerald De Palmas
EXERCISE 24 OF 38
Groove N
60 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEKGQU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elle S'ennuie on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, ride through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Elle S'ennuie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 44, 56 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-43 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elle S'ennuie?

99 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 S'ennuie hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elle S'ennuie?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 44, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED