Lick It Up · KISS

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 22-40 and 42-56, and 6 more places -- 92.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LICK IT UP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 92 and 117.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 2 sections: 113 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-56.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lick It Up?

120 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 Lick It Up hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lick It Up?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 92 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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