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Zuffenhausen · Misha Mansoor & Tosin Abasi

Zuffenhausen · Misha Mansoor & Tosin Abasi
EXERCISE 21 OF 48
Fill at bar 31 and 39 (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLDBAEV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zuffenhausen on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-16, snare through bars 17-19 and toms through bars 20-23, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 6 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----|
SD |---------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----x--------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------------|
Zuffenhausen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 21, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zuffenhausen?

105 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 Zuffenhausen hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Zuffenhausen?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 21, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED