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Love Me Like A Reptile · Motörhead

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 172 BARS COVERED
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PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesEHNFS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Me Like A Reptile on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-164 and kick and crashes through bars 165-172.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Love Me Like A Reptile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-44 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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