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Grabenkampf · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove T -- Chorus 2
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PART A
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART S15
PART AM
PART AR
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK 4
17 groovesTS15EARAH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grabenkampf on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-67, kick and crashes through bars 68-69, silence through bars 70-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-76, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    81
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Grabenkampf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-81 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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