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Zu nah an der Wahrheit · Bo

EXERCISE 16 OF 17
Run G1 · Outro 2 (bars 95-100)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zu nah an der Wahrheit on drums

100 bars, 6:09, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-88, ride through bars 89-90, hi-hat through bars 91-94 and ride through bars 95-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-43, and 6 more places -- 82.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Zu nah an der Wahrheit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 44, 52, 68 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Zu nah an der Wahrheit?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Zu nah an der Wahrheit hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Zu nah an der Wahrheit?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 44, 52, 68 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED