Les Iris · Alcest

198 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 143-158 and 183-197 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LES IRIS · BARS 143-144
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 18, 46, 50, 58, 66 and 8 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 17 sections: 133 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-91.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART S14
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWYBL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Les Iris?

114 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 Iris hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Les Iris?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 18, 46, 50, 58, 66 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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