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Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love · Van Halen

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART G
PART M
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGHMD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---------------x-------|
RD |------------x---x---x-------x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-47 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-68 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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