La Nuit Je Mens · Alain Bashung

73 bars, 3:54, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-37 and 44-73 -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
LA NUIT JE MENS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 66 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Nuit Je Mens?

75 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 La Nuit Je Mens hard to play on drums?

37 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 La Nuit Je Mens?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

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