Ace Of Spades · Motörhead

96 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 17-18, and 11 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ACE OF SPADES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 25 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-21.

CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEQUS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ace Of Spades?

140 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 Ace Of Spades hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ace Of Spades?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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