Waffenbrüder · Kanonenfieber

261 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-44 and 52, and 11 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WAFFENBRÜDER · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 45, 46, 47 and 35 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

261 bars across 29 sections: 117 keep time, 41 are fills, 49 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AE
PART N
CHORUS 3
21 groovesIRAAAAE+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waffenbrüder?

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 Waffenbrüder hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Waffenbrüder?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 45, 46, 47 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED
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