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Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie · Étienne Daho

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 67 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1FS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 31 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 38-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie?

126 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 Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie hard to play on drums?

38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED