J’avais rêvé du nord · Peste Noire

81 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
11/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 15 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
J’AVAIS RÊVÉ DU NORD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 72 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-72.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is J’avais rêvé du nord?

128 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 J’avais rêvé du nord hard to play on drums?

11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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