Les Chansons · Lazuli

173 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 44-45 and 48-49, and 17 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LES CHANSONS · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 52, 94, 102 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 21 sections: 116 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART A
BREAK
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJAAIHQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Les Chansons?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Les Chansons hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Les Chansons?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 52, 94, 102 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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