Motorhead · Motörhead

159 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 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
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-25, 27 and 29-30, and 18 more places -- 73.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 210 BPM
MOTORHEAD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 26, 28, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 36-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 4 sections: 124 keep time, 31 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-138.

OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Motorhead?

210 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 Motorhead hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Motorhead?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 26, 28, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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