I Was Made For Loving You (2025) · 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 and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14-16 and 18-19, and 19 more places -- 56.1% 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 LOVING YOU (2025) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 4 sections: 121 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-94.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Was Made For Loving You (2025)?

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 Loving You (2025) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 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 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Was Made For Loving You (2025)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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