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WeltAale · Käsiger Michael

EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Hold Groove P for 8 bars -- Part P (bars 39-46)
64 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCPHAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WeltAale on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-30 and toms through bars 31-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12                                               13
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--x--x--------|------x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
WeltAale -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 41, 49 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 50-67 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-82 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is WeltAale?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 WeltAale hard to play on drums?

59 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 WeltAale?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 41, 49 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED