Piece Of Your Action · Mötley Crüe

153 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 32-38 and 59-65, and 6 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PIECE OF YOUR ACTION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 28 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 16 sections: 94 keep time, 34 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-111.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART V
PART Y
PART D
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDGYV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece Of Your Action?

124 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 Piece Of Your Action hard to play on drums?

60 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Piece Of Your Action?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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