Les larmes et des maux · Les Infidèles

161 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-47 and 49-64, and 5 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
LES LARMES ET DES MAUX · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 94, 113, 114 and 138.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 7 sections: 138 keep time, 5 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-47.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Les larmes et des maux?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 larmes et des maux hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Les larmes et des maux?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 94, 113, 114 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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