Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love · Van Halen

129 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 23 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 139 BPM
AIN'T TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 96, 104, 122, 124, 126 and 2 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-39.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGHMD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love?

139 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 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 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 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 96, 104, 122, 124, 126 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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