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EXERCISE 13 OF 32
Fill at bar 53 (a small one)
135 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART S6
OUTRO
7 groovesDS6CS8A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DEMOKRATIE on drums

215 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-117, snare through bars 118-132, hi-hat through bars 133-142, silence through bars 143-184 and hi-hat through bars 185-189, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-39, 42-44 and 46-48, and 14 more places -- 54.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
DEMOKRATIE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 78, 85, 132 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-40 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-208 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DEMOKRATIE?

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

Is DEMOKRATIE hard to play on drums?

49 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in DEMOKRATIE?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 78, 85, 132 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED