Le Portail de la Vierge · Anorexia Nervosa

247 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 6:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 14-15 and 31, and 10 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LE PORTAIL DE LA VIERGE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 18, 21, 27, 36, 37, 38 and 75 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 36-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 18 sections: 125 keep time, 81 are fills, 7 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

PART H
PART C
CHORUS
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART BC
PART H
PART BH
OUTRO
14 groovesDHCBCBH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Portail de la Vierge?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Portail de la Vierge hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 28 sittings, about 27 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 Portail de la Vierge?

23 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 18, 21, 27, 36, 37, 38 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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