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Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) · Gojira

EXERCISE 13 OF 39
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
PART G
PART I
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKGBIL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) on drums

116 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-35, snare through bars 36-43, ride through bars 44-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-89, 103 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---------------o---------------|
BD |----------------------------x---|
Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 35, 44, 47, 93, 94 and 4 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 -- K, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-30 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-113 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 35, 44, 47, 93, 94 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED