Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) · Mötley Crüe

150 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 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
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19, 21 and 23, and 6 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TAKE ME TO THE TOP (CORRECT VERSION) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 32, 40 and 17 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 11 sections: 109 keep time, 23 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-26.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBJFRQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The Top (Correct Version)?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take Me To The Top (Correct Version) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 Take Me To The Top (Correct Version)?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 32, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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