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Schwarz · Rammstein

EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Join Part B to Part L (bars 92-94)
104 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART L
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBS1S9L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schwarz on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-49, silence through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-88, ride through bars 89-105 and silence through bars 106-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 34 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---------|
Schwarz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 72, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-81 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 92-101 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Schwarz?

127 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 Schwarz hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Schwarz?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 72, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED