L'enfance · Akrem Chekki

96 bars, 5:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-28, 40-55 and 61-74, and 1 more place -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
L'ENFANCE · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 60 and 86.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-30.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is L'enfance?

70 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 L'enfance hard to play on drums?

36 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 L'enfance?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 60 and 86.

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