Le messie · Indochine

154 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 19-45 and 47-61, and 3 more places -- 87.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LE MESSIE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 5 sections: 144 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-118.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le messie?

120 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 messie hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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