TILL LINDEMANN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Du hast kein Herz

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 26 more places -- 69.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
37/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 141 BPM
DU HAST KEIN HERZ · BAR 5

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 37 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 106 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 106, 123 and 141 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 Du hast kein Herz use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 141 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 69.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-7, 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 25 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Du hast kein Herz hard?

23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED