La Veuve et Le Martyr · First Fragment

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
7:07
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 12 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LA VEUVE ET LE MARTYR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 38, 40 and 49 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 17 sections: 85 keep time, 55 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AL
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJAOFPS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Veuve et Le Martyr?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Veuve et Le Martyr hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Veuve et Le Martyr?

19 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 38, 40 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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