etre a la hauteur · Le roi soleil

69 bars, 3:57, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-59 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
ETRE A LA HAUTEUR · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 69.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-59.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJDFK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is etre a la hauteur?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is etre a la hauteur hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 etre a la hauteur?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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