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Wach Bleiben · Ethan Lesmeister

Wach Bleiben · Ethan Lesmeister
EXERCISE 20 OF 37
Join Part F to Part G (bars 19-21)
30 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
PART A
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS8LIFD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wach Bleiben on drums

44 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:12 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37 and toms through bars 38-39, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x---------x-----------|
Wach Bleiben -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 38 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-21 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-33 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wach Bleiben?

120 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Wach Bleiben hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wach Bleiben?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 38 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED