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Piece Of Your Action · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 27 OF 56
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
113 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piece Of Your Action on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, snare through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-54, snare through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Piece Of Your Action -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-71 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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