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Sarbacane · Francis Cabrel

EXERCISE 14 OF 21
Groove M
97 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesIBGTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sarbacane on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 18 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Sarbacane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sarbacane?

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 Sarbacane hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED