Pas Des Chiens · Blankass

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-70, and 8 more places -- 91.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
PAS DES CHIENS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 73, 77 and 87.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 4 sections: 110 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-72.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pas Des Chiens?

93 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 Pas Des Chiens 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pas Des Chiens?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 73, 77 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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