French Disko · Stereolab

135 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-41 and 43-47, and 5 more places -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
FRENCH DISKO · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars: 134 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-135.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is French Disko?

144 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 French Disko hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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