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.

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

TEMPO

70 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

69

LENGTH

3:57

DIFFICULTY

50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-43 and snare through bars 44-45, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 29-59 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.