Zick Zack · Rammstein

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 26-31 and 36-40, and 10 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ZICK ZACK · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 57, 65, 73 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 10 sections: 102 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKOS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zick Zack?

130 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 Zick Zack hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Zick Zack?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 57, 65, 73 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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