Deaf Forever · Motörhead

142 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-30 and 33-35, and 10 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DEAF FOREVER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 66, 70 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 135-136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 6 sections: 104 keep time, 12 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-31.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAFIOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deaf Forever?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Deaf Forever hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Deaf Forever?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 66, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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