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La Nuit Je Mens · Alain Bashung

EXERCISE 7 OF 10
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 36-38)
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0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Nuit Je Mens on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-43 and snare through bars 44-73.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x--x--x---|
BD |x------x--xx----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
La Nuit Je Mens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED