RAMMSTEIN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Radio

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 34-48, and 6 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 132 BPM
RADIO · BARS 5-6

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 48 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 53 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 99 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 99, 116 and 132 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 Radio use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 132 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 51.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-11, 13-20, 34-48 and 67-81, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.

Is the beat in Radio hard?

48 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED