Grabenkampf · Kanonenfieber

303 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-83, 89-91 and 101-104, and 5 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
GRABENKAMPF · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 48, 52, 60, 67, 78 and 27 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 22 sections: 129 keep time, 36 are fills, 48 are stops and 72 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-44.

PART A
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART S15
PART AM
PART AR
OUTRO
BREAK 4
17 groovesTS15EARAH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grabenkampf?

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

Is Grabenkampf hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Grabenkampf?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 48, 52, 60, 67, 78 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED
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