Grabenlieder · Kanonenfieber

147 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-63 and 99-113 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
GRABENLIEDER · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 25 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 31 are fills, 18 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-114.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNEHAS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grabenlieder?

116 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 Grabenlieder hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 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 Grabenlieder?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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