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Westerland · Die Ärzte

EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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PART A
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Westerland on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, ride through bars 65-80, hi-hat through bars 81-104 and ride through bars 105-120, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-108 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 112-137 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED