Ace of Spades (Standard tuning, simplified bass) · Motorhead

96 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ACE OF SPADES (STANDARD TUNING, SIMPLIFIED BASS) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-85.

CHORUS
PART K
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJPKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ace of Spades (Standard tuning, simplified bass)?

144 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 (Standard tuning, simplified bass) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 31 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 (Standard tuning, simplified bass)?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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