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Zu Spät · Die Ärzte

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zu Spät on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

60 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
90
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-55, snare through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 19-29 and 32-53, and 3 more places -- 69% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Zu Spät -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Zu Spät?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Zu Spät hard to play on drums?

60 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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