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Grabenlieder · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 2 OF 63
Groove E -- Part E
30 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grabenlieder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-82, snare through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86 and snare through bars 87-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49                                               50
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----------------|------x-----------------------x-----------x-----|
Grabenlieder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-85 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-73 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-52 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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