La ballade de Jim · Alain Souchon

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-15, 26-30 and 41-45, and 4 more places -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LA BALLADE DE JIM · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 128 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-142.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La ballade de Jim?

130 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 La ballade de Jim hard to play on drums?

42 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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