La Dernière Séance · Eddy Mitchell

118 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-23 and 25-43, and 2 more places -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
LA DERNIÈRE SÉANCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 60, 80 and 96.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 5 sections: 107 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-117.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Dernière Séance?

134 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 Dernière Séance hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 La Dernière Séance?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 60, 80 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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