Die Fastnacht der Hölle · Kanonenfieber

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 75-77, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
DIE FASTNACHT DER HÖLLE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 16 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 22 are fills, 13 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-87.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART N
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAS10RFI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die Fastnacht der Hölle?

106 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Die Fastnacht der Hölle hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 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 Die Fastnacht der Hölle?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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