ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kampf und Sturm on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 112 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 113
LENGTH: 4:02
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-25, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Kampf und Sturm -- 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 3, 11, 12, 20, 24, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through Part K and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Kampf und Sturm?

112 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 Kampf und Sturm hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Kampf und Sturm?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 11, 12, 20, 24, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED