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Gesichter · Leftovers

Gesichter · Leftovers
EXERCISE 6 OF 22
Groove D
71 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEFS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gesichter on drums

98 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-45, snare through bars 46-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Gesichter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 45, 53 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 27-81 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gesichter?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gesichter 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gesichter?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 45, 53 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED