Il Etait Une Forêt · Gris

283 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 10:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
10:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 24-30 and 33-43, and 10 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
IL ETAIT UNE FORÊT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 32, 64, 71, 72, 80 and 20 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

283 bars across 17 sections: 180 keep time, 26 are fills, 9 are stops and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 188-218.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCMIS10N+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Il Etait Une Forêt?

100 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 Il Etait Une Forêt hard to play on drums?

58 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 10:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Il Etait Une Forêt?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 32, 64, 71, 72, 80 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED
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