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Il Etait Une Forêt · Gris

EXERCISE 12 OF 77
Groove H -- Part H
143 / 283 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Il Etait Une Forêt on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
10:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-57, silence through bars 58-70, snare through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-104 and snare through bars 105-110, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Il Etait Une Forêt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C, M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 51-73 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-229 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-227 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-268 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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