The Game · Motörhead

146 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 11 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE GAME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 86, 102 and 5 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 13 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-69.

CHORUS
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIES8S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Game?

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

Is The Game hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Game?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 86, 102 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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