Screaming For A Love-bite · Accept

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 23-24 and 30-32, and 15 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SCREAMING FOR A LOVE-BITE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 21, 27, 35, 40, 53 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 15 sections: 112 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-134.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGVQAKL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Screaming For A Love-bite?

140 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 Screaming For A Love-bite hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Screaming For A Love-bite?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 21, 27, 35, 40, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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