Petite Marie v2 · FRANCIS CABREL

19 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 0:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9 and 11-12 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PETITE MARIE V2 · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 4 sections: 9 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-12.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Petite Marie v2?

128 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 Petite Marie v2 hard to play on drums?

33 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Petite Marie v2?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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