Der Schamane · Traktorgas

320 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
320
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21-26 and 46-49, and 13 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DER SCHAMANE · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 42, 59, 60, 78, 82, 83 and 32 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 82-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

326 bars across 27 sections: 218 keep time, 38 are fills, 18 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 263-282.

PART I
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART B
PART I
PART BT
15 groovesEIBBTG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Der Schamane?

200 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 Der Schamane hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

320 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 35 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 Der Schamane?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 42, 59, 60, 78, 82, 83 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 320 BARS ANALYSED
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