Je Dis Aime · Mathieu Chedid

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-15, and 2 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
JE DIS AIME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 26, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 2 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-82.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesASGLPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Je Dis Aime?

97 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 Je Dis Aime hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Je Dis Aime?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 26, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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