Westerland · Die Ärzte

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 41-56 and 58-64, and 3 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
WESTERLAND · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 112 and 141.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 10 sections: 159 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-172.

PART A
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Westerland?

190 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 Westerland hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Westerland?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 112 and 141.

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