La gloire à mes genoux · Le rouge et le noir

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 14-15 and 25-29, and 2 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LA GLOIRE À MES GENOUX · BAR 25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 43.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGIS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La gloire à mes genoux?

90 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 gloire à mes genoux hard to play on drums?

41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in La gloire à mes genoux?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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