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Zick Zack · Rammstein

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Groove E
93 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKOS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zick Zack on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-83, silence through bars 84-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-145.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Zick Zack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-83 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 100-136 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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