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Live Wire · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove W -- Part W
90 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART W, OUTRO
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNFCWA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live Wire on drums

183 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-53, silence through bars 54-56 and toms through bars 57-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-52 and 90-96, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Live Wire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 29, 34 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-62 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-94 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Live Wire?

224 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 Live Wire hard to play on drums?

63 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Live Wire?

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 29, 34 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED