RAMMSTEIN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Angst (Original)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-13 and 30-32, and 8 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 112 BPM
ANGST (ORIGINAL) · BAR 6

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 16 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 47 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 84 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 84, 98 and 112 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Angst (Original) use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 112 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 34.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-8, 10-13, 30-32 and 34-36, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Angst (Original) hard?

16 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED