Kickstart My Heart Alternate Drums · Motley Crue

190 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 49-55 and 57-62, and 6 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
KICKSTART MY HEART ALTERNATE DRUMS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 45 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 44-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 15 sections: 120 keep time, 14 are fills, 34 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-92.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
11 groovesEQOHS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kickstart My Heart Alternate Drums?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Kickstart My Heart Alternate Drums hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kickstart My Heart Alternate Drums?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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