DIE ÄRZTE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Mach Die Augen Zu

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-45 and 47-69, and 5 more places -- 76.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
MACH DIE AUGEN ZU · BAR 26

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 29 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 90 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.

Tempo goes 90, 105 and 120 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 Mach Die Augen Zu use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 76.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 25-39, 41-45, 47-69 and 71-85, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.

Is the beat in Mach Die Augen Zu hard?

13 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 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 · 118 BARS ANALYSED