Quand la ville dort · Niagara

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-58, 60-90 and 92-97 -- 97.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
QUAND LA VILLE DORT · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 59 and 91.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 2 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-58.

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

Questions

What BPM is Quand la ville dort?

106 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 Quand la ville dort hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 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 Quand la ville dort?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 59 and 91.

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