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Aint Talkin Bout Love · Van halen

EXERCISE 25 OF 53
Part G into Chorus 2 with the record (bars 57-64)
103 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART G
PART R
9 groovesDGHRS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aint Talkin Bout Love on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, 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 25-26, 30-31 and 42, and 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Aint Talkin Bout Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part G -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aint Talkin Bout Love?

140 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 Aint Talkin Bout Love hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Aint Talkin Bout Love?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED