Ollas leiwand · Georg Danzer

104 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
OLLAS LEIWAND · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 48, 56, 71 and 5 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 71 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
PART J
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHCJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ollas leiwand?

135 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 Ollas leiwand hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 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 Ollas leiwand?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 36, 48, 56, 71 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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