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

EXERCISE 28 OF 41
Fill at bar 54
89 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ace of Spades (Standard tuning, simplified bass) on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-54, ride through bars 55-66, hi-hat through bars 67-94 and kick and crashes through bars 95-96.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
Ace of Spades (Standard tuning, simplified bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-51 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-75 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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