Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) · Atherakia

170 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 66-89, 98-120 and 122-128, and 2 more places -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IDYLLES ET UTOPIES (LIVE VERSION) · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 97, 121, 133, 141 and 169.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 10 sections: 103 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-88.

PART S1
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
8 groovesFS1DNH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Idylles Et Utopies (Live Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 97, 121, 133, 141 and 169.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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