In The Name Of Tragedy · Motörhead

113 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 12 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
IN THE NAME OF TRAGEDY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 11 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-78.

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

Questions

What BPM is In The Name Of Tragedy?

152 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 In The Name Of Tragedy hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In The Name Of Tragedy?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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