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raison detre · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 24 OF 24
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play raison detre on drums

183 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-183.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 30-33 and 38-41, and 9 more places -- 72.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo---o-xxo---o-|
SD |----xx-x----xx-x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
raison detre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 53, 64, 66, 67, 75 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-55 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-99 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-179 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is raison detre?

159 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 raison detre hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in raison detre?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 53, 64, 66, 67, 75 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED