Place des Grands Hommes · Patrick Bruel

141 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-100, 126-130 and 136-140 -- 65.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PLACE DES GRANDS HOMMES · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 121, 122, 123 and 124.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 121-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 7 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-100.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBS1S5DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Place des Grands Hommes?

130 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 Place des Grands Hommes 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Place des Grands Hommes?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 121, 122, 123 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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