Ain't Love Grand · Atreyu

196 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11 and 109-137 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
AIN'T LOVE GRAND · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 20, 44, 45, 51, 52 and 20 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 11 sections: 151 keep time, 26 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-137.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART L
PART D
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGDLAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ain't Love Grand?

212 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 Ain't Love Grand hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ain't Love Grand?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 20, 44, 45, 51, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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