Shout At The Devil · Mötley Crüe

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 9 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30 and 16 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAZCOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shout At The Devil?

94 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 Shout At The Devil hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 Shout At The Devil?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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