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Les Océans du Vide · Seth

EXERCISE 2 OF 85
Groove H -- Part H
36 / 194 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Les Océans du Vide on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
97/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-40, hi-hat through bars 41-51 and snare through bars 52-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Les Océans du Vide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-70 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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