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Motorhead · Motörhead

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove C -- Outro
116 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Motorhead on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and toms through bars 36-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-13 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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