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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

146

LENGTH

4:10

DIFFICULTY

44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-61, ride through bars 62-78, hi-hat through bars 79-94 and snare through bars 95-114, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------------------o-----|o-----------------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----|x-----------------x-x-x-|
BD |xx----------x--------x--|x-----------------------|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Bars 25-48 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Bars 60-115 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 114-124 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.