Ne Me Quitte Pas · Jacques Brel

37 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 1:24 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
37
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-36 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
NE ME QUITTE PAS · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars across 2 sections: 34 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-36.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ne Me Quitte Pas?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ne Me Quitte Pas hard to play on drums?

31 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

37 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Ne Me Quitte Pas?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 37 BARS ANALYSED
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