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The Game · Motörhead

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Fill at bar 24, 32, 46 and 3 more (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Game on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-52, toms through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-86 and snare through bars 87-102, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|
The Game -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-63 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 49-106 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

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