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Les Patates · Mononc' Serge & Anonymus

Les Patates · Mononc' Serge & Anonymus
EXERCISE 10 OF 38
Join Part B to Part D (bars 4-6)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJPDZAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Les Patates on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 2-16, ride through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 41-43 and 59-61 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-16 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Les Patates?

100 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 Patates hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Patates?

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED