Mein Ding · Udo Lindenberg

117 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 29 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MEIN DING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 48, 58, 98, 99 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 98-102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 90 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-90.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mein Ding?

125 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 Mein Ding 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Mein Ding?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 48, 58, 98, 99 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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