Der Füsilier I · Kanonenfieber

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-84 and 86-88, and 9 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DER FÜSILIER I · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45 and 18 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 14 sections: 77 keep time, 24 are fills, 28 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-140.

PART A
PART L
PART S9
PART T
CHORUS
PART Z
OUTRO
13 groovesXLZAT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Der Füsilier I?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Der Füsilier I hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Der Füsilier I?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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