Mein Herz Brennt · Rammstein

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronicUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-43 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
MEIN HERZ BRENNT · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 48, 56 and 7 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDBS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mein Herz Brennt?

83 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 Mein Herz Brennt hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Mein Herz Brennt?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 48, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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