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Milliers, Millions, Milliards · Jean-Louis Aubert

Milliers, Millions, Milliards · Jean-Louis Aubert
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Milliers, Millions, Milliards on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom and kick.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
27/100

ride through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-62 and snare through bars 63-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 44-55 and 64-96 -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Milliers, Millions, Milliards -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C, B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Milliers, Millions, Milliards?

105 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 Milliers, Millions, Milliards hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED