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Le Chant des Cygnes · Indochine

EXERCISE 10 OF 11
Join Verse 2 to Break (bars 80-82)
105 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE 2, BREAK
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
BREAK
VERSE 3
3 groovesCBS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Chant des Cygnes on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-81, silence through bars 82-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-49, 66-81 and 94-117 -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Le Chant des Cygnes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Le Chant des Cygnes?

138 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 Le Chant des Cygnes hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED