Goldener Reiter · Joachim Witt

148 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-47, and 3 more places -- 95.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 136 BPM
GOLDENER REITER · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 20, 48, 75 and 104.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars: 142 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-148.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goldener Reiter?

136 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 Goldener Reiter hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, 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 Goldener Reiter?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 20, 48, 75 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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