Vivre · Michel BERGER

129 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 21-30 and 36-39, and 5 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
VIVRE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 31, 40, 58, 67 and 121.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-100.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
PART S9
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
9 groovesBCS1JS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vivre?

125 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 Vivre hard to play on drums?

36 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vivre?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 31, 40, 58, 67 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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