I Was Made for Lovin' You · KISS

139 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-15 and 17-19, and 26 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I WAS MADE FOR LOVIN' YOU · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 68, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 2 sections: 127 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-94.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Was Made for Lovin' You?

128 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 I Was Made for Lovin' You hard to play on drums?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Was Made for Lovin' You?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 68, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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