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Bitte bleib · AnnenMayKantereit

Bitte bleib · AnnenMayKantereit
EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove F
27 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIQGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitte bleib on drums

67 bars, 4:42, at 57 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
57 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-39, ride through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 9, and 6 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x-----------g---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------x-|
Bitte bleib -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 31, 42, 46, 49 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bitte bleib?

57 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bitte bleib hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bitte bleib?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 31, 42, 46, 49 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED