Je Sais Pas Pourquoi · Anakreenskyrider

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-32 and 79-86 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
JE SAIS PAS POURQUOI · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 95, 96 and 97.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-146.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART R
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHMECR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Je Sais Pas Pourquoi?

140 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 Je Sais Pas Pourquoi hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sais Pas Pourquoi?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 95, 96 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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