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Le Chemin · Kyo

EXERCISE 18 OF 25
Groove I -- Verse
61 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
VERSE
OUTRO
6 groovesEBAIS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Chemin on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, ride through bars 44-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 33-38 and 50-67 -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Le Chemin?

80 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 Chemin hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Le Chemin?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED