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Mein Ding · Udo Lindenberg

Mein Ding · Udo Lindenberg
EXERCISE 4 OF 22
2-bar fill at bar 7
89 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mein Ding on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-98 and toms through bars 99-102, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Mein Ding -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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