Dicke Bertha · Kanonenfieber

153 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 11 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DICKE BERTHA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 14, 20, 24 and 28 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 35 are fills, 57 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-36.

PART A
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesUHEAVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dicke Bertha?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dicke Bertha hard to play on drums?

64 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Dicke Bertha?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 14, 20, 24 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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