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Le Ciel · Malice Mizer

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART D
PART A
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART N
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJADENFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Ciel on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 25-40 and 49-60, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--xxxxx---o-x-xx|x-xxxxx---o-x-xx|
SD |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|x-----x---x-----|
Le Ciel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 62, 64, 66, 70, 74 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-84 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-113 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Le Ciel?

123 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 Ciel hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 31 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 Le Ciel?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 62, 64, 66, 70, 74 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED