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Orgasmatron · Motörhead

EXERCISE 10 OF 16
Groove F
144 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orgasmatron on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-55, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 33-35 and 56-58, and 5 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Orgasmatron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 59, 94, 117 and 152.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Orgasmatron?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Orgasmatron hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Orgasmatron?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 59, 94, 117 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED