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Waffenbrüder · Kanonenfieber

EXERCISE 8 OF 86
Run S21 · Break (bars 17-18)
105 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waffenbrüder on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-61, snare through bars 62-63 and toms through bars 64-68, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 45-70 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 112-134 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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