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Les Iris · Alcest

EXERCISE 19 OF 52
Fill at bar 46, 50 and 104 (a small one)
114 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
PART L
PART S14
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWYBL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Les Iris on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-40, snare through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    143                                              144
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--------------------x-----------------------x--|x-----------x-----------------------------------|
Les Iris -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- W, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 49-67 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-109 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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