California Uber Alles · Dead Kennedys

134 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-30 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 42, 46, 48, 50, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 15 sections: 102 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART D
PART H
PART T
PART X
PART H
PART D
OUTRO 2
9 groovesADHKT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is California Uber Alles?

169 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is California Uber Alles hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 California Uber Alles?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 42, 46, 48, 50, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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