Le Dernier Jour · Indochine

149 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-48, 50-51 and 84-90, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
LE DERNIER JOUR · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 49, 75, 91, 105, 107, 108 and 9 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 107-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-34.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesEDGJS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Dernier Jour?

133 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 Dernier Jour hard to play on drums?

53 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?

149 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Le Dernier Jour?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 49, 75, 91, 105, 107, 108 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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