Nous ne Sommes pas du Ciel · Visible Confusion

293 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-100, 102 and 104, and 12 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NOUS NE SOMMES PAS DU CIEL · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 70, 71, 72 and 29 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 24 sections: 159 keep time, 35 are fills, 54 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AL
21 groovesUZHALQ+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nous ne Sommes pas du Ciel?

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

Is Nous ne Sommes pas du Ciel hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 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 Nous ne Sommes pas du Ciel?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 70, 71, 72 and 29 more.

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