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Alter Mann · Rammstein

EXERCISE 5 OF 6
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 64-66)
82 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alter Mann on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, silence through bars 66-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-42, 44-65 and 74-90 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x-------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
FT |x---------------|
BD |x--x---xx--x----|
Alter Mann -- 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 5 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Alter Mann?

85 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 Alter Mann hard to play on drums?

61 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED