Was ich liebe · Rammstein

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

86 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

95

LENGTH

4:25

DIFFICULTY

58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 58-64 and 82-84, and 4 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
RD |--x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 56, 57, 65 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 30-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 37-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.