Les Océans du Vide · Seth

194 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 41-51 and 115-124, and 2 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LES OCÉANS DU VIDE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 26, 69, 72, 80, 106, 110 and 19 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 20 sections: 120 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART S17
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFHS17AHV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Les Océans du Vide?

120 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 Océans du Vide hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Océans du Vide?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 26, 69, 72, 80, 106, 110 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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