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Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken) · Shot in Stillwater

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART Z
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesNHXFA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken) on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-76, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 29-31 and 33-34, and 2 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxx-x-x--xx--xx-|xxx-x-x-xxxxxxxx|
Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 35, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-53 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken)?

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 Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Episches Frischkäsefondue (mit eingelegten Dill gurken)?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 35, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED