Motivation · Sum 41

119 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 15 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
MOTIVATION · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-28.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Y
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCILYA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Motivation?

168 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 Motivation hard to play on drums?

54 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Motivation?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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