Le pénitencier 2 · Johnny Hallyday

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 19-29 and 35-36, and 7 more places -- 67.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
LE PÉNITENCIER 2 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 52.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 74 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

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

Questions

What BPM is Le pénitencier 2?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 pénitencier 2 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 pénitencier 2?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 52.

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