L'aziza · Daniel Balavoine

109 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-29, 31-38 and 43-63, and 4 more places -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
L'AZIZA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-29.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is L'aziza?

115 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 L'aziza hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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