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Maulwurf · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove P -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPTEGS19+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maulwurf on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, snare through bars 21-42, silence through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 75-77 and 83-85, and 6 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Maulwurf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 26, 30, 34 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- P, T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-16 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maulwurf?

120 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 Maulwurf hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Maulwurf?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 26, 30, 34 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED