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Adios · Rammstein

EXERCISE 9 OF 36
2-bar fill at bar 7
71 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART C
PART S8
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCES8S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adios on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-28 and snare through bars 29-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-28 and 37-43, and 1 more place -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 44, 60, 63 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-45 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-81 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Adios?

115 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 Adios hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Adios?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 44, 60, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED