Drum beat in the style of “Tage wie diese” — Die Toten Hosen

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Die Toten Hosen’s 2012 anthem is built for stadiums: a fast, driving beat with the hi-hat pushing forward. Keep it energetic but in control.

Tempo
140 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Groove
driving rock beat
Genre
Rock
Difficulty
Easy
Loop
4 bars

Drum pattern

Main groove × 3
Hi-hat
Snare
Kick
Fill × 1
Hi-hat
High tom
Floor tom
Snare
Kick

Each row is one drum, each column one step. Large dots are accents, small dots normal hits, faint dots ghost notes.

Who plays what: notes per bar

Cymbal hand8
Snare hand2
Kick foot4

Every kick lines up with a cymbal stroke, which makes this one of the easiest coordination patterns to start with.

About this groove

At about 140 BPM it has an up-tempo feel: one beat lasts 429 ms and a 4/4 bar takes 1.7 seconds. Use the tempo buttons to slow it down while you learn.

Practice plan

BPM

Learn At 140 BPM, “Tage wie diese” is faster than 79% of the 150 songs in our catalogue. See all song tempos →

64 176 BPM Tage wie diese · 140
Tempo among our rock songs

Step-by-step breakdown of the driving rock beat →

How it differs from similar beats

Compared with “Tempo Perdido” (Legião Urbana, rock beat with 8th notes), this groove adds kick notes on 1& — and it runs 14 BPM faster. If you can already play that one, this is your next step. Tempo Perdido →

“Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne) uses exactly the same simplified pattern, 2 BPM slower — a good warm-up before this one. Crazy Train →

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This is a simplified rhythm pattern in the style of “Tage wie diese” by Die Toten Hosen, written for drum practice. It is not a transcription of the recording and contains no audio, lyrics or artwork. Drums3D is not affiliated with Die Toten Hosen.