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Le Train · Vilain Pingouin

Le Train · Vilain Pingouin
EXERCISE 10 OF 48
2-bar fill at bar 19
111 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Train on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Le Train -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-88 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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