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Zwitter · Rammstein

EXERCISE 16 OF 30
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 63-88)
114 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S7
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDOS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zwitter on drums

170 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, snare through bars 73-89, silence through bars 90-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116 and snare through bars 117-132, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 41-48 and 65-71, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Zwitter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 40, 64, 72, 88, 108 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-136 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Zwitter?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Zwitter hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Zwitter?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 40, 64, 72, 88, 108 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED