Le dernier jour du disco · juliette armanet

51 bars, 2:51, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 29 and 31-34, and 2 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 71 BPM
LE DERNIER JOUR DU DISCO · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesEDHFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le dernier jour du disco?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Le dernier jour du disco hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Le dernier jour du disco?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

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