Kling Klang · Keimzeit

124 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-31, 34-41 and 43, and 9 more places -- 83.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
KLING KLANG · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 53, 69 and 93.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 4 sections: 108 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-32.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kling Klang?

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 Kling Klang hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Kling Klang?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 53, 69 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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