Love Me Like A Reptile · Motörhead

172 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 47 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 198 BPM
LOVE ME LIKE A REPTILE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 24, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 15 sections: 128 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-143.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesEHNFS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Me Like A Reptile?

198 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 Love Me Like A Reptile hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Love Me Like A Reptile?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 24, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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