KISS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in I Was Made For Loving You (2025)

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.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 128 BPM
I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU (2025) · BAR 14

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 53 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 70 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 83 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 83, 98, 113 and 128 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does I Was Made For Loving You (2025) use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 128 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-11, 14-16, 18-19 and 22-28, and 18 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in I Was Made For Loving You (2025) hard?

53 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED