Wild Side · Mötley Crüe

145 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 11-12 and 16-18, and 16 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WILD SIDE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 14 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 9 sections: 110 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-137.

CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFTMAQS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Side?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wild Side hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Wild Side?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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