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Übers Meer · Till Lindemann

EXERCISE 19 OF 25
Fill at bar 40, 56 and 72 (a small one)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesJS7GCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Übers Meer on drums

118 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-87, silence through bars 88-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-55 and 65-70, and 2 more places -- 56.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Übers Meer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- J, C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-88 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Übers Meer?

156 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 Übers Meer hard to play on drums?

38 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Übers Meer?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED