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Todeswalzer · Windir

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove P -- Chorus
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0 / 47 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPDKBQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Todeswalzer on drums

198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-150 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    120
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Todeswalzer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Todeswalzer?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Todeswalzer hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Todeswalzer?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED