Shock Me · KISS

115 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 9 and 13, and 13 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SHOCK ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 31, 32, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 31-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-78.

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

Questions

What BPM is Shock Me?

127 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 Shock Me hard to play on drums?

64 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Shock Me?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 31, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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