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Drache · Käsiger Michael

EXERCISE 40 OF 73
Fill at bar 49 (a small one)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drache on drums

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.

49 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
136
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, snare through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-33, snare through bars 34-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- J, U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-70 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-43 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-62 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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