Take Me To The Top · Mötley Crüe

149 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 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 upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-20, 22 and 24, and 8 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
TAKE ME TO THE TOP · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 28, 32, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time, 19 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-27.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFPOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The Top?

170 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 28, 32, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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