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Dicke Bertha · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 25 OF 59
Groove I
73 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dicke Bertha on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-75, snare through bars 76-84, hi-hat through bars 85-88, kick and crashes through bars 89-94, toms through bars 95-96 and kick and crashes through bars 97-102, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-o-----o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Dicke Bertha -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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