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Der Füsilier II · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 21 OF 59
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
70 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART S4
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNS8S4SG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Der Füsilier II on drums

139 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 2:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-33, silence through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-46, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 74-75, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Der Füsilier II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 44, 50 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-115 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-107 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Der Füsilier II?

160 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Der Füsilier II hard to play on drums?

68 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?

139 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 II?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 44, 50 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED