Le Train · Vilain Pingouin

150 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 22-27 and 30-34, and 5 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LE TRAIN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 48, 55, 56 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 10 sections: 124 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesDIPHA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Train?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Le Train hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Le Train?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 48, 55, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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