Le Vent du Nord · Monarque

181 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-34, and 7 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LE VENT DU NORD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 36, 68, 84 and 19 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 116 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART I
PART G
PART K
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesCKGS17I+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Vent du Nord?

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

Is Le Vent du Nord hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vent du Nord?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 36, 68, 84 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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