RAMMSTEIN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Te quiero puta!

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11, 26-41 and 58-72, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 160 BPM
TE QUIERO PUTA! · BARS 6-7

It is played on high tom, floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 64 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 120 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 120, 140 and 160 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 Te quiero puta! use?

A 2-bar phrase on high tom, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 28.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-11, 26-41, 58-72 and 92, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in Te quiero puta! hard?

38 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 64 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 · 146 BARS ANALYSED