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Benzin · Rammstein

EXERCISE 17 OF 46
Groove I
97 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Benzin on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-xxxxx-x-|------x-x-x---x-|
Benzin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 15, 16, 20 and 17 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-20 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 45-73 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-102 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-112 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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