Je marche comme on tombe · Vincent Valière

121 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 6 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
JE MARCHE COMME ON TOMBE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 4 sections: 117 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-77.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
3 groovesBFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Je marche comme on tombe?

144 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 marche comme on tombe hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Je marche comme on tombe?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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