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Der Maulwurf · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 13 OF 55
Groove K -- Part K
80 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART A
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
14 groovesPQABS1+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Der Maulwurf on drums

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 5:12 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
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-34, snare through bars 35-52 and silence through bars 53-55, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-39, 44-46 and 84-87, and 6 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Der Maulwurf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 18, 27, 32, 33, 34, 43 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-76 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-122 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-52 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-84 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Der Maulwurf?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Maulwurf hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 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 Maulwurf?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 18, 27, 32, 33, 34, 43 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED