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Kickstart My Heart · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Run F1 · Part F (bars 16-26)
126 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART P
PART T
PART E
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHPACT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kickstart My Heart on drums

204 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-25, snare through bars 26-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-58, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 47-49 and 51-53, and 12 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    48
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------X-----------X-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Kickstart My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 191 and 204.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-169 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kickstart My Heart?

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

Is Kickstart My Heart hard to play on drums?

62 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Kickstart My Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 191 and 204.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED