God Was Never on Your Side · Motörhead

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-12 and 14-15, and 11 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
GOD WAS NEVER ON YOUR SIDE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 37 and 12 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 4 sections: 53 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Was Never on Your Side?

88 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 God Was Never on Your Side hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 God Was Never on Your Side?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 37 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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