Primal Scream · Mötley Crüe

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-45, 68-70 and 72-74, and 1 more place -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
PRIMAL SCREAM · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 25 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 32 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-123.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
VERSE 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
7 groovesGPMCJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Primal Scream?

108 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 Primal Scream hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Primal Scream?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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