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Le Dernier Jour · Indochine

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Groove I -- Part I
93 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S10
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesEDGJS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Dernier Jour on drums

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

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-110, silence through bars 111-117, hi-hat through bars 118-121, snare through bars 122-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-149.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-86 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 95-143 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 100-110 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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