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California Uber Alles · Dead Kennedys

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Join Part B to Part D (bars 33-35)
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CHORUS
PART B
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play California Uber Alles on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-68, toms through bars 69-76, ride through bars 77-84 and snare through bars 85-102, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
T1 |x-----------x-----------x-------|
FT |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
California Uber Alles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-43 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-49 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-52 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-66 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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