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Les Chansons · Lazuli

Les Chansons · Lazuli
EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART A
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART Q
PART H
PART T
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJAAIHQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Les Chansons on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-54, silence through bars 55-66, ride through bars 67-69, snare through bars 70-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-84, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------------------x-------|
Les Chansons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-20 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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