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.44 Caliber Love Letter · Alexisonfire

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGMAPE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play .44 Caliber Love Letter on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-77, snare through bars 78-79, hi-hat through bars 80-109 and kick and crashes through bars 110-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44 and 46-65 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x---x---x-x-|
BD |xx-x---x---x-x-x|
.44 Caliber Love Letter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-66 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-74 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-79 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is .44 Caliber Love Letter?

86 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 .44 Caliber Love Letter 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED