Drache · Käsiger Michael

136 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-21 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DRACHE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 15, 23, 25 and 31 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 37 are fills, 33 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

PART G
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesUJGTK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drache?

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 Drache hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drache?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 15, 23, 25 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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