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Hier Kommt Alex · Die Toten Hosen

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 82 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hier Kommt Alex on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-88, toms through bars 89-104, hi-hat through bars 105-126 and snare through bars 127-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 10 more places -- 71.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-----x-|
Hier Kommt Alex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 85-108 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hier Kommt Alex?

135 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 Hier Kommt Alex hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hier Kommt Alex?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED