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Grosse Freiheit · Unheilig

Grosse Freiheit · Unheilig
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grosse Freiheit on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-57, snare through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 42-56 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
Grosse Freiheit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 57, 66, 82 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-20 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-42 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Grosse Freiheit?

132 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 Grosse Freiheit hard to play on drums?

37 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Grosse Freiheit?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 57, 66, 82 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED