Born To Raise Hell · Motörhead

166 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 41 and 45, and 26 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BORN TO RAISE HELL · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 108.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 140 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-30.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART T
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
9 groovesDTANK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Raise Hell?

138 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 Born To Raise Hell hard to play on drums?

54 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Born To Raise Hell?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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