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Tattoo · Rammstein

EXERCISE 25 OF 45
Fill at bar 62 and 140 (a small one)
113 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO 2
PART S1
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S7
PART P
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJS1PS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tattoo on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22 and snare through bars 23-24, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 25-26 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Tattoo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 38, 46 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S1 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 73-122 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-137 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tattoo?

141 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 Tattoo hard to play on drums?

53 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tattoo?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 14, 38, 46 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED