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Ramm4 · Rammstein

EXERCISE 20 OF 43
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 69-71)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK 7
16 groovesNCS20AH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ramm4 on drums

193 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and toms through bars 34-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-23, and 15 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
SD |----x---------x-----|
FT |x---x---x-x---x---x-|
BD |x---x-----x---x-----|
Ramm4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 29, 43, 44, 45, 82 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-169 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-71 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-114 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 111-161 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part S18 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ramm4?

130 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 Ramm4 hard to play on drums?

41 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ramm4?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 29, 43, 44, 45, 82 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED