We're Not Gonna Take It · Twisted Sister

138 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-36, 65-70 and 73-78, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 28 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 34 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGAABU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We're Not Gonna Take It?

148 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 We're Not Gonna Take It hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 We're Not Gonna Take It?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 22, 23, 31, 37, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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