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Gestaltzerfall · Animals as Leaders

EXERCISE 15 OF 57
Join Part S2 to Part E (bars 5-7)
52 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART E
PART S2
PART E
PART Q
PART W
PART AC
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesANWBDEAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gestaltzerfall on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-77, silence through bars 78-89, snare through bars 90-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-107, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45 -- 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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    1...............2...............3...............
HH |o---------o-----o---------o-----o---------o-----|
SD |--------------------------------X---------------|
BD |x--x--x---x-----x--x--x---x--------x--x---x--x--|
Gestaltzerfall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 17, 21, 46, 49, 50 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- W -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gestaltzerfall?

110 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 Gestaltzerfall hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 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, 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 Gestaltzerfall?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 17, 21, 46, 49, 50 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED