Benzin · Rammstein

125 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-39 and 57-71 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BENZIN · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 15, 16, 20 and 17 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 23 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJGVR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Benzin?

142 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 Benzin hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Benzin?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 15, 16, 20 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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