Always Love · Nada Surf

100 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-47, 49-55 and 57-68, and 2 more places -- 68% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ALWAYS LOVE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 4 sections: 95 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-47.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Love?

122 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 Always Love hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Always Love?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

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