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In Die Schlacht · Absurd

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S12
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesABKHF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Die Schlacht on drums

99 bars, 5:24, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
98/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 13-24 and 42-45, and 2 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 41 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-87 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Die Schlacht?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In Die Schlacht hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In Die Schlacht?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 41 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED