Red Hot · Mötley Crüe

194 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-35, 37-44 and 63-64, and 12 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 234 BPM
RED HOT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 60, 76, 77, 78, 110, 126 and 5 more.

LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BARS 76-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 7 sections: 158 keep time, 11 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-44.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Hot?

234 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 Red Hot hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Red Hot?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 60, 76, 77, 78, 110, 126 and 5 more.

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