Juste Essayer · Acta

40 bars, 2:35, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 24-26, and 3 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 62 BPM
JUSTE ESSAYER · BAR 24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 22 and 23.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 3 sections: 33 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Juste Essayer?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Juste Essayer hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Juste Essayer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 22 and 23.

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