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Sex · Rammstein

EXERCISE 15 OF 39
Groove I
78 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFROB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sex on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, toms through bars 19-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-29, 31-36 and 51, and 3 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T1 |---------x--------------|
FT |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Sex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 52, 60, 69, 85, 101 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 54-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sex?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sex hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sex?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 52, 60, 69, 85, 101 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED