Le Mort Joyeux · Peste Noire

168 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 33-39 and 57-71 -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LE MORT JOYEUX · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 31, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 12 sections: 106 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART S6
PART N
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAGS6NJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Mort Joyeux?

125 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 Mort Joyeux hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Le Mort Joyeux?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 31, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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